Originally Posted by NAJetSet (Post 15591240)

i qualified for elite very early in 2010, at the six month mark i start having my AE nubmer removed at the gate just prior to boarding (after u/g if any). then when december comes along, the system sees that i qualify for Elite for 2011 and asks me kindly to select my E benefits for 2011. when that goes through, i submit a whole heck load of milage requests for the all those flights not credited, and that puts me way over the SE threshold, then the system sees that I now qualify for SE in 2011 and asks to select again. so for my E benefits i selected all eCredits and for SE i select %100 and all eCredits for a total of 95 eCredits for 2011 (excluding my FP eCredits and threshold bonus', which will take me somewhere to 257 eCredits for 2011)

Originally Posted by margarita girl (Post 15591589)

But don't you miss out on a whole bush of threshold upgrades this way?

Originally Posted by NAJetSet (Post 15591240)

i start having my AE nubmer removed at the gate just prior to boarding

Originally Posted by threepoint (Post 15593307)

Your scheme makes sense to me (although not sure if I'd be advertising it myself) but exactly how do you "start having your AE number removed"? Do you book flights without inputting it, or simply apply a bit of white-out?