How long for my A3*G card to arrive? [Timeline to "new" M+B transition]
Nov 19, 2012, 8:23 pm
#346
Join Date: Nov 2005
Programs: UA, AA, A3*Gold
Posts: 9
A data point for those in the north east US. Upgraded to Gold on September 23, and just received my card today. I live in an area affected by Hurricane Sandy, and the address on my package is missing the state and the zip is missing the leading 0. Still, somehow the US Postal Service managed to figure out where to deliver the package to. As is the case with the other cases, expiry on the card is Dec 2015.
Nov 22, 2012, 5:51 pm
#347
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast USA
Programs: various
Posts: 6,710
A data point for those in the north east US. Upgraded to Gold on September 23, and just received my card today. I live in an area affected by Hurricane Sandy, and the address on my package is missing the state and the zip is missing the leading 0. Still, somehow the US Postal Service managed to figure out where to deliver the package to. As is the case with the other cases, expiry on the card is Dec 2015.
Nov 24, 2012, 7:10 am
#348
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: California
Programs: *A Gold, SPG Gold, PC Plat, HH Gold, Hyatt Plat, Avis PC, Hertz PC, EC Elite, Starbucks Gold :D
Posts: 133
I am in California and qualified for Gold on 10/10. Received my card earlier this week.
Nov 24, 2012, 1:50 pm
#349
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast USA
Programs: various
Posts: 6,710
Does anybody know if, upon request, A3 will email a letter acknowledging Gold Status, to tide me over as proof when I have to travel *A before the actual card shows up? Certainly I'd like lounge access and no-fee/extra baggage allowance.
Nov 24, 2012, 11:28 pm
#350
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: On the upper deck of an A380
Programs: OZ*G, QF Gold
Posts: 245
Thanks for input. Clearly something is wrong. I'm always so unlucky. I've just instituted the lost card request. Maybe it will come around New Years or early 2013.
Does anybody know if, upon request, A3 will email a letter acknowledging Gold Status, to tide me over as proof when I have to travel *A before the actual card shows up? Certainly I'd like lounge access and no-fee/extra baggage allowance.
Does anybody know if, upon request, A3 will email a letter acknowledging Gold Status, to tide me over as proof when I have to travel *A before the actual card shows up? Certainly I'd like lounge access and no-fee/extra baggage allowance.
As for baggage, that shouldn't be a huge issue, I've never once been asked for my card at check in, as *S or *G, to get all my baggage perks.
Nov 25, 2012, 4:57 pm
#351
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 633
Same here in Northern California - upgraded on Sept. 11 and haven't received the card yet.
Nov 25, 2012, 5:32 pm
#352
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: SOF
Programs: A3 Gold, IHG Platinum, Marriott Silver
Posts: 849
Chicago
I qualified on September 4th for Gold and it's end of November - still no card. When I qualified for Silver earlier this year, I got the card in a little over a month. Don't know what the hold up is. I requested a replacement at the beginning of November and neither one has showed up yet. Luckily for me, I still have *G status on AC until February of next year, so I have 3 more months to work this out. Don't know what the big deal is with A3 to get these cards out to people.
Nov 25, 2012, 9:14 pm
#353
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast USA
Programs: various
Posts: 6,710
I qualified on September 4th for Gold and it's end of November - still no card. When I qualified for Silver earlier this year, I got the card in a little over a month. Don't know what the hold up is. I requested a replacement at the beginning of November and neither one has showed up yet. Luckily for me, I still have *G status on AC until February of next year, so I have 3 more months to work this out. Don't know what the big deal is with A3 to get these cards out to people.
At least I know now that you, me and a330300 are still in the same cardless boat! I was beginning to feel left out and lonely.
Nov 25, 2012, 10:38 pm
#354
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: DFW
Programs: AS, BA, AA
Posts: 3,670
It took around two months for them to e-mail me they tried to mail my card, but my address info was incomplete. I went online and re-entered it, even though everything was correct on the account. I also replied to their e-mail and told them that everything was correct on my account, but I had re-submitted the info.
After another month or so, I got a card; the envelope was addressed like this:
janetdoe
100 Main Street
City USA
No zip, no state. As far as I can tell, the only reason I received it was because my city has a unique name.
After another month or so, I got a card; the envelope was addressed like this:
janetdoe
100 Main Street
City USA
No zip, no state. As far as I can tell, the only reason I received it was because my city has a unique name.
Nov 26, 2012, 12:17 am
#355
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: California
Programs: *A Gold, SPG Gold, PC Plat, HH Gold, Hyatt Plat, Avis PC, Hertz PC, EC Elite, Starbucks Gold :D
Posts: 133
Another data point - The missus flew the same flight as me on Oct 8th/9th. But her points dint post immediately. Had to wait for 2 weeks and file a retro claim on A3 website. Don't really know the exact date the points got posted. But she did receive her Gold card on 11/23.
Nov 26, 2012, 7:39 am
#356
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minneapolis: DL DM charter 2.3MM
Programs: A3*Gold, SPG Plat, HyattDiamond, MarriottPP, LHW exAccess, ICI, Raffles Amb, NW PE MM, TWA Gold MM
Posts: 100,426
I strongly suspect that A3 doesn't use airmail in sending cards to the USA. As a result, some are nevertheless sent by air on a space-available basis and arrive relatively quickly (but not as fast as an airmail letter would) while others are sent by surface vessel and arrive much more slowly.
Nov 26, 2012, 9:02 am
#357
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast USA
Programs: various
Posts: 6,710
It took around two months for them to e-mail me they tried to mail my card, but my address info was incomplete. I went online and re-entered it, even though everything was correct on the account. I also replied to their e-mail and told them that everything was correct on my account, but I had re-submitted the info.
After another month or so, I got a card; the envelope was addressed like this:
janetdoe
100 Main Street
City USA
No zip, no state. As far as I can tell, the only reason I received it was because my city has a unique name.
After another month or so, I got a card; the envelope was addressed like this:
janetdoe
100 Main Street
City USA
No zip, no state. As far as I can tell, the only reason I received it was because my city has a unique name.
Nov 27, 2012, 10:58 am
#358
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast USA
Programs: various
Posts: 6,710
Boy do I feel like an Idiot
Of course, the Gold Card just shows up in the mail this morning. Expiration date 12/15. Christmas come early. So, there's hope for the cardless among you yet. Now if A3 can just stay solvent for a nice long while, so I can get copious practice using it. 
However, my envelope was addressed:
NAME
Street Address
Zip City
US
No state at all. Thankfully the Zip Code was on or it would be in the undeliverable bucket for sure.
However, my envelope was addressed:
NAME
Street Address
Zip City
US
No state at all. Thankfully the Zip Code was on or it would be in the undeliverable bucket for sure.
Nov 27, 2012, 11:22 am
#359
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: Nah.
Posts: 13,967
Card upgrade on 31/8/2012 and arrived 26/11/2012 in the US. Wow, sure takes time!
Nov 27, 2012, 4:09 pm
#360
formerly RZachSmith
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: U.S.
Posts: 187
I hit "card upgrade" to Gold on the website last week. I'm flying an award ticket LH/TG in a couple of weeks. The odds of my gold card arriving before then are obviously very, very slim.
Has anyone had any experience using their old Silver card, with a printout showing the upgrade status, to get into LH Senator lounges? Trying to figure out my plan in FRA. I've heard LH can be a stickler, but if I have a card and it scans and shows gold, logic would tell me I'd have decent luck...
Has anyone had any experience using their old Silver card, with a printout showing the upgrade status, to get into LH Senator lounges? Trying to figure out my plan in FRA. I've heard LH can be a stickler, but if I have a card and it scans and shows gold, logic would tell me I'd have decent luck...