Originally Posted by
AAerSTL
Why would it not be? Historically airlines have honored 'lifetime' statuses and passes and the like. AA last sold lifetime AC memberships in late 2005ish and they are being honored. AA also honored the TW lifetime memberships and status.
Not specific to AC access, but lifetime status like 1MM/2MM will be honored, but there will likely be further erosion of the associated benefits and in turn value of the status, like we saw with UA MileagePlus.
Not at all. Yes, they did accept miles - my Aviators account had over 500,000 miles, assumed into my AAdvantage account (and incidentally pushing me over 1MM in the MM program extant at the time, giving me unexpected lifetime Gold.
Delta did permit lifetime Gold Crown room membership from Pan Am. But:
But when AA took over TWA in 2001, they ended "giving" lifetime members of TW Ambassadors a Club members their remaining current year of membership plus one more year of Admirals Club membership. That's not a precedent we'd like repeated, but it has solid footing in how AA treated lifetime Ambassadors Club members.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/twa-f...bassadors.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...embership.html