Originally Posted by serpens

Thank you for the responses.


Those are not important considerations.


As I understand the email, it is an "instant status" offer. (If I had understood it to be purchasing status for 5000 Hyatt points, I wouldn't have posted.) And getting bonus mileage would likely mean that more miles would expire unused at some future date, because I fly so infrequently (and when I do, it's on American only about one time out of four).