Originally Posted by Adam Smith

Loyalty only matters to AC as it translates to profitability. I don't know what metrics they use to determine buy-up offers, but they're likely more interested in how offering a buy-up will drive future profitability than rewarding past loyalty. What they think of your metrics, or mine, who knows. Several years ago, one of the Aeroplan execs said that they had a lot of people who were way over the next status level on AQD (as it was at the time) but short on AQM or AQS, and they were more interested in those people than the ones who were going to lose/downgrade status because they didn't have enough AQD - people flying 100 segments for $5K were very "loyal", but not very profitable.

They've given the SQD-heavy people the ability to help close that gap with the credit card (spend-based SQM/SQS, rollover SQM), but there's no way to bump your SQD without flying (or spending money on a UFP). I also get the sense that offers have mostly targeted people who had the SQD but were short on SQM/SQS, although I've not gone through the posts and tried to compile statistics.

So I don't think offers for people who meet the SQM/SQS but fall short on the SQD are going to be very likely. Or at least not very appealing (e.g. maybe buy-up costs $5K to make up your $3.5K shortfall).