How long for my A3*G card to arrive? [Timeline to "new" M+B transition]
Apr 25, 2012, 10:27 am
#151
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: IAD
Programs: DL-Silver; BA-Bronze
Posts: 1,162
My son got the Gold card upgrade on April 4, 2012 and he got his gold packet delivered today (April 25). We're on the East Coast - USA. This must be a record for speedy delivery!
Apr 25, 2012, 11:58 am
#152
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,477
Both MrsNWIFlyer and I qualified on 23rd March, and the cards were received today in the UK. Seems to lend credence to the theory that that is a single printing run each month given bevoinva's son's experience.
Apr 25, 2012, 5:06 pm
#153
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Canada
Programs: UA*1K MM SK EBG LATAM BL
Posts: 23,309
Qualified on 18th March - Blue Card arrived in Canada today - I dont plan on Gold until last days of December, so hopefully when that card comes on early 2013, it will have an expiry of Dec.2016.
Apr 26, 2012, 2:26 am
#154
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SIN (with a bit of ZRH sprinkled in)
Posts: 9,455
If you fail to fly within 36 months, your account will become deactivated, and you'll have time until the end of the year to retrocredit a flight you'd taken in the past (within the 36 months) to re-activate it. That's why you always get 3 years + till years end when you reach your status. So don't think you can fly as late as Dec 2015 to renew your account, it will be gone if you do so. At least one activity every 36 months to keep it active is required.
Apr 26, 2012, 1:05 pm
#155
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 193
My experience has been a little different. I qualified for Blue on Feb 15 and for Gold on March 21. Today I received a Blue Card in the mail.
Hopefully Gold will come soon. Is it just an envelope as well or is it a package of some kind?
Hopefully Gold will come soon. Is it just an envelope as well or is it a package of some kind?
Apr 26, 2012, 1:54 pm
#156
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cumberland RI USA
Posts: 37
Getting Gold on A3
Achieved Gold April 2, received Gold Card (and baggage tag) April 26. Card good until 12/2015.
Apr 27, 2012, 6:47 pm
#157
Join Date: Aug 2008
Programs: UA, DL, A3
Posts: 123
Card expiry doesn't really say anything, again! Your account will stay active as long as you're posting one flight within 36 weeks of the last flight posted. (Hotel stays and other non-flight activities don't keep it active)
If you fail to fly within 36 months, your account will become deactivated, and you'll have time until the end of the year to retrocredit a flight you'd taken in the past (within the 36 months) to re-activate it. That's why you always get 3 years + till years end when you reach your status. So don't think you can fly as late as Dec 2015 to renew your account, it will be gone if you do so. At least one activity every 36 months to keep it active is required.
If you fail to fly within 36 months, your account will become deactivated, and you'll have time until the end of the year to retrocredit a flight you'd taken in the past (within the 36 months) to re-activate it. That's why you always get 3 years + till years end when you reach your status. So don't think you can fly as late as Dec 2015 to renew your account, it will be gone if you do so. At least one activity every 36 months to keep it active is required.
But I don't understand why YuropFlyer told that
Did I miss something?
Apr 27, 2012, 9:20 pm
#158
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SXB
Programs: FB Silver, BA Silver, BD Gold rememberer, IHG Diamond Royal Ambassador, Hilton and Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,583
If you don't credit every 36 months, your account will be canceled. So, even if a card issued in December 2012 has a 12/2016 expiration date, he will have to credit a flight in December 2012+36 months = December 2015 at the latest.
Apr 28, 2012, 8:06 am
#159
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Location: Canada
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I actually thought it was if you dont credit within 12 months
to keep account (and *Gold) active.
Apr 28, 2012, 7:02 pm
#160
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minneapolis: DL DM charter 2.3MM
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My understanding is that the rule is that you must credit a flight within 24 months but have an additional 12 months to sort out that the flight was properly credited.
Apr 29, 2012, 6:53 am
#161
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: SE1, London
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Almost exactly the same qualification and receipt of card dates for me, adding further weight to the theory.
Apr 29, 2012, 11:01 am
#162
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 23
I also received my Gold card this week and qualified mid march 
May 1, 2012, 7:33 am
#163
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: GRU
Programs: G3 - Diamond / A3 - Gold / AD - Sapphire
Posts: 34
Hi,
Gold upgrade on March 27, card arrive yesterday April 30. I'm in Brazil
Gold upgrade on March 27, card arrive yesterday April 30. I'm in Brazil
May 2, 2012, 6:18 am
#164
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: TK Elite Plus, SAS EBG, QR Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,297
Gold card upgrade March 2. No card as of today (May 2nd). This is really getting to my nerves. However accessing the lounges have never been a problem without the card, not even Lufthansa in MUC.
May 2, 2012, 9:47 am
#165
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: SEA/ORD/ADB
Programs: TK ELPL (*G), AS 100K (OWE), BA Gold (OWE), Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Plat, IHG Plat
Posts: 7,763
It took 6 months for my card to arrive. Why? Because they dropped the 0 at the beginning of my zip code, and the USPS got confused and sent it to a sorting center, where it sat in backlog for 6 months.
A warning for anyone with a 0xxxx zipcode...
A warning for anyone with a 0xxxx zipcode...