Question: Why does Aeroplan provide more value on first year attaining status?
Jul 23, 2019, 7:31 am
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 31
Why does Aeroplan provide more value on first year attaining status?
What is the logic in providing more value to members in the first year they attain SE status? In the year it's attained, members receive rollover altitude qualifying miles at each threshold:
2,500 @ 60K
5,000 @ 90K
15,000 @ 150K
Total: 22,500
For the same mileage accumulation, existing SE member would receive only 15,000 at 150K and nothing below that threshold.
What's the logic in the additional value in the first qualifying year?
2,500 @ 60K
5,000 @ 90K
15,000 @ 150K
Total: 22,500
For the same mileage accumulation, existing SE member would receive only 15,000 at 150K and nothing below that threshold.
What's the logic in the additional value in the first qualifying year?
Jul 23, 2019, 7:54 am
#2
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: YYZ
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Marriott Bonvoy Lifetime PE, AC Altitude SE100K-1MM
Posts: 308
Note, the roll-over miles are only awarded based on your current status. So if you're a 50K and you don't manage to reach 75K, but accumulate more than 60K in the year, then at least you get a head start to your next attempt to achieve your status again and give you a jump in becoming 75K.
Jul 23, 2019, 8:07 am
#4
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: YYZ
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Marriott Bonvoy Lifetime PE, AC Altitude SE100K-1MM
Posts: 308
But the that would be a member who jumps from 50K status all the way...
I also am not sure that the roll-overs are cumulative; it may be just the "top" amount you achieve is rolled over. At least that's how I interpret things. They are certainly not in the habit of giving away AQM!
I also am not sure that the roll-overs are cumulative; it may be just the "top" amount you achieve is rolled over. At least that's how I interpret things. They are certainly not in the habit of giving away AQM!
Jul 23, 2019, 8:11 am
#5
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 31
But the that would be a member who jumps from 50K status all the way...
I also am not sure that the roll-overs are cumulative; it may be just the "top" amount you achieve is rolled over. At least that's how I interpret things. They are certainly not in the habit of giving away AQM!
I also am not sure that the roll-overs are cumulative; it may be just the "top" amount you achieve is rolled over. At least that's how I interpret things. They are certainly not in the habit of giving away AQM!
Jul 23, 2019, 8:13 am
#6
Join Date: Mar 2016
Programs: AC SE
Posts: 1,505
What is the logic in providing more value to members in the first year they attain SE status? In the year it's attained, members receive rollover altitude qualifying miles at each threshold:
2,500 @ 60K
5,000 @ 90K
15,000 @ 150K
Total: 22,500
For the same mileage accumulation, existing SE member would receive only 15,000 at 150K and nothing below that threshold.
What's the logic in the additional value in the first qualifying year?
2,500 @ 60K
5,000 @ 90K
15,000 @ 150K
Total: 22,500
For the same mileage accumulation, existing SE member would receive only 15,000 at 150K and nothing below that threshold.
What's the logic in the additional value in the first qualifying year?
Jul 23, 2019, 8:33 am
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 31
I have wondered this as well. It’s odd to me that after beginning last year as E75 and accumulating 155,000 AQM or so, I began this year (my first as SE) with 20,000 AQM. But this year, as an SE, unless I fly 150,000, I enter next year with 0 AQM. I’m not sure I understand the logic of it.
Jul 23, 2019, 9:04 am
#8
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ideally YOW, but probably not
Programs: AC SE*MM
Posts: 1,826
I get they they are trying to get people to aim higher, but once you are SE I think AC kind of assume you'll stick with it assuming your travel patterns warrant. And that is probably not a bad assumption. If I was going from E50K to SE I'd receive more in rollover miles, eUps, etc. than I will this year where I will probably end up somewhere between 150K and 200K miles, which does seem out of whack.
Jul 23, 2019, 11:39 am
#10
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE100K, Bonvoy Platinum Elite, IHG Gold, Hertz 5*
Posts: 2,132
Jul 23, 2019, 12:11 pm
#12
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SFO
Programs: AC SE MM, BA Gold, SQ Silver, Bonvoy Tit LTG, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond
Posts: 44,324
Now you're SUPPOSED to get something like 5 or 10 extra at each level, essentially the difference between what the two levels offer.
Jul 23, 2019, 12:14 pm
#13
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: YVR
Programs: AC SE100K, Bonvoy Platinum Elite, IHG Gold, Hertz 5*
Posts: 2,132
You used to get the full amount as you went up the levels. My first year I received E35K + E50K + E75K, which was WAY more than an SE would get.
Now you're SUPPOSED to get something like 5 or 10 extra at each level, essentially the difference between what the two levels offer.
Now you're SUPPOSED to get something like 5 or 10 extra at each level, essentially the difference between what the two levels offer.
There are things about AC IT that drive me batty, but given my personal experiences over the last 18 months there are many things I'll miss when they finally get their crap together.
Jul 23, 2019, 2:01 pm
#15
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: トロント
Programs: IHG Gold
Posts: 4,820
They want to wean the new pups on to the never ending quest for status, status and more status. A bonus or too at the beginning helps you along and before you know it, you are on FT and trying to get to higher levels.