Originally Posted by Wpgjetse (Post 27808754)

Having talked to some AC "higher ups", you are right. The funny thing is, they know the names of a few FT posters and basically shake their heads because of the direct dealings with them.

Originally Posted by YHZ_Flyer (Post 27810939)

Guesting is still good as well for now.

Originally Posted by Sean Peever (Post 27812686)

ya, some of our names are pretty hard to figure out :D

Originally Posted by canadiancow (Post 27812993)

They know who I am :p

Originally Posted by Jumper Jack (Post 27813078)

Walk up to the YVR SE Checkin
Agent: Good morning, first and last name please

SE MM:
Say My Name: Breaking Bad - YouTube

Originally Posted by canadiancow (Post 27813094)

Before your Cactus Club do, I walked into the concierge office, and one of them said, "Scott, right?"

I don't think I'd ever met her before.

Originally Posted by Sean Peever (Post 27812686)

ya, some of our names are pretty hard to figure out :D

Originally Posted by YEG_SE4Life (Post 27813230)

Do you suppose they know the true names for Ken and Dorian?

Originally Posted by canadiancow (Post 27812993)

I was going to say, quite a few of us have put about zero effort into masking our identities.

They know who I am :p

Originally Posted by Ia Ora (Post 27813383)

LOL.

And if all else fails, there is always the thread where everybody freely posts their year-end AQMs and AQDs down to the last mile/dollar.

Might as well sign the post. :D

Originally Posted by monsieurcumulus (Post 27804903)

I thought I would be able to qualify for E50K this year. Living temporarily in the US for the year, most of my trips were on UA but with half-price AQD treshold, I thought it still be feasible.

At the beginning of December 2016, I had over 35K in miles but hadn't met the AQDs treshold. My qualification depended on only one big vacation to South Africa. I bought the ticket on AC website so it would count for AQDs:

Outbound (Dec 2016)
YUL-LHR AC J
LHR-JNB SA J (AC codeshare)
JNB-CPT SA J (AC codeshare)

Inbound (Jan 2017)
CPT-JNB SA Y (AC codeshare)
JNB-MUC SA Y (AC codeshare)
MUC-YUL LH PY (AC codeshare)

On my ticket, the price of the outbound was 1500$, inbound 700$ and YQ 700$. After checking on ITA Matrix, I expected the attributed value of YQ for the outbound at 470$ and expected to have approx 2000$ in ADQs for 2016 (the remaining value to be credited in 2017). All numbers rounded.

When the miles posted for the the outbound, the AQDs were less than half of the total ticket price (including YQ) and around 600$ less than what I expected to be credit for the 3 segments.

I filed a discrepant ADQs form that was responded within hours. I was told that there was no mistakes and that the AQDs were prorated to the distance of each segment on the total value of the ticket.

I ended up the year with 50 500 miles but short of about 200$ on ADQs for E50K. I had a few exchanges with AC but there was nothing to do, so I resigned to be E35K this year.

I read this blog extensively and haven't found any information on this particular matter so I thought it would be interesting to share as I learned it the hard way.

Originally Posted by yhm71 (Post 27824781)

So I qualified last year for exalted 35K status, got the card etc., and now am being asked by the Altitude website to "choose your Prestige 25K privileges". Any ideas what's going on?