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Old Feb 18, 2006 | 6:29 am
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Originally Posted by jgoodm
I wonder, if Delta says you get lifetime status for 1 million miles earned through credit card and/or actual miles, wouldn't it be beneficial to spend the 150k for 300k miles and in a couple of years he will have bought lifetime elite status from Delta along with actually being able to use the 1 million miles for free tix? Just a thought.

By the way, this is post 90 for me.
I think DL's lifetime levels are based on flown miles. (Not 100% sure, but that's how they used to be.)

AA counts all sources though. Just haven't ever seen an uncapped 2x offer for them...
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