As already noted, it's not from any source any more. That ended in December 2011. (Any Million Miler miles you earned from any source before December 2011 count, but from December 2011 onward only "butt-in-seat" miles count.)

There's Lifetime Gold after 1M Million Miler miles, and Lifetime Platinum after 2M Million Miler miles.

Yes, Platinum only gets you lounge access on days your flying internationally. But if you choose to get lifetime status on another OW airline, while flying AA, you have to give up lots of other perks (including upgrades) on AA for an extremely high number of flights to do so.

Meanwhile, who knows how this will work ten years from now. And anyone choosing today which airline to start collecting lifetime miles at is likely to need at least ten years to get to second-level-up lifetime.

So I don't see the point of pursuing lifetime status with another OW airline (if that's going to take anywhere around 1MM of flying AA) when you can buy domestic lounge access for just a few hundred dollars a year (or get it with a credit card that costs a few hundred dollars a year).

Executive Platinum is an AA status (which is not available in lifetime form). The status at Delta above Platinum is called Diamond.


There's lifetimes status at hotel chains too. If you're not going to cover those here, then I suggest you notify an operator to fix the thread title, as it's not clear from the current thread title that it's about alliance airlines only.

(No, not everyone might care about only alliance airlines. In the US specifically, some people might prefer to pursue lifetime status with Alaska if that's available.)

And be careful about all many-year-plans. Could you have predicted 10+ years ago that US would shift for *A to OW, and thus that any liftetime status there would shift from one alliance to another? That happened in South America too, when TAM shifted the same way when it was acquired by LAN. How do you some more of these (not founding) airlines of an alliance won't shift alliances in the next decade or two?

So i think it's much safer, if you're after a particular alliance, to pursue lifetime status with a founding member of that alliance rather than some second-tier member of the alliance.

And, btw, speaking of hotel chains, it's not necessarily unrelated to airlines: Marriott has a tie-in with United, whereby Marriott Platinum members can get complimentary United Silver status (but no higher level). As long as that continues, Marriott Lifetime Platinum is a backdoor way of effectively getting (maybe) lifetime United Silver.