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The Air Canada Early Status Recognition Thread
Sep 28, 2008, 3:07 pm
#211
Company Representative - Air Canada
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Canada
Posts: 24,215
Please do not keep posting wrong info here. In order to make SE by Oct 15, you must fly 100,000 miles or 95 segments. (Account will not change over to SE by flying 97,500 before Oct 15 as per your post above.)
Sep 28, 2008, 3:42 pm
#212
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: YUL
Programs: AC SE
Posts: 2,103
Is there "lite" Elite and / or SE?
If one crosses 100k by Nov 8th, does that person become SE shortly thereafter (with or without having a package); Jan 1 2009 or March 1, 2009?
Sep 28, 2008, 5:47 pm
#213
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 571
I apologize, I had been told that the early recognition would ''kick'' in at 95 segments, forgetting they had brought down the requirements from 100 segments, to 95 last year. Didn`t realise that until now. Thanks for the correction.
Last edited by bestof2k9; Aug 6, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Sep 28, 2008, 6:30 pm
#214
Company Representative - Air Canada
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Canada
Posts: 24,215
Can you confirm what the treatment is for a member that reaches the full published level but after OCT 15th?
Is there "lite" Elite and / or SE?
If one crosses 100k by Nov 8th, does that person become SE shortly thereafter (with or without having a package); Jan 1 2009 or March 1, 2009?
Is there "lite" Elite and / or SE?
If one crosses 100k by Nov 8th, does that person become SE shortly thereafter (with or without having a package); Jan 1 2009 or March 1, 2009?
Sep 28, 2008, 7:05 pm
#215
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC E
Posts: 347
I still think that the lack of incentive for an "early" re-qualifying E is a problem. I have now reached E for 2009. My understanding is that if I go to 40K, I get 2 SWUs, but no more SSWUs until 60K. For me, SE is out of the question, so trying other airlines is now an attractive option. Last year I went from SE to E, and that is the worst - they process your package dead last "just in case you actually get to SE again". So I could not book (as I planned) upgrades with SWUs on M fares as I watched I go from 9 to 0 for the flights I wanted.
Sep 28, 2008, 7:53 pm
#216
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: YYZ most of the time
Programs: AC SE100K MM, Princess Elite
Posts: 3,921
I still think that the lack of incentive for an "early" re-qualifying E is a problem. I have now reached E for 2009. My understanding is that if I go to 40K, I get 2 SWUs, but no more SSWUs until 60K. For me, SE is out of the question, so trying other airlines is now an attractive option. Last year I went from SE to E, and that is the worst - they process your package dead last "just in case you actually get to SE again". So I could not book (as I planned) upgrades with SWUs on M fares as I watched I go from 9 to 0 for the flights I wanted.
Sep 28, 2008, 8:42 pm
#217
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC E
Posts: 347
Sep 29, 2008, 4:58 am
#219
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: YOW
Programs: AC E75K *G
Posts: 7,108
There have been a few people saying they didn't get them, so things could change, but absent a deluge of experience to the contrary or confirmation from a reliable source, the current wisdom is that you do receive them, albeit separately from the intro package.
Sep 29, 2008, 8:47 am
#220
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,564
- Because certs for 20K haven't arrived
- Because the first post is from 2006
- Because Andrew Yiu contradicts the first post on the first page "If you get Elite, you will start earning certs when you reach the next threshold (45K)." [in 2006 the certs were at 15K, 30K, 45K, 60K vs. today's 20K, 40K, 60K]
- Because it seems reasonable to me that they would start with the 40K set
Has anyone received certs (for a threshhold <35K) after qualifying for early Elite in 2007 or 2008?
Thanks!
=aw
Oct 3, 2008, 10:09 am
#221
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Body in Downtown YYZ, heart and mind elsewhere
Programs: UA 50K, refugee from AC E50K, Marriott Lifetime Plat
Posts: 5,132
Personally I only fly 40K or so each year, so I'm quite happy that the threshold is where it is. To institute early re-qualification incentives for E might entail a revamp of E altogether which could mean the threshold will creep up to where the other *A partners have theirs.
Oct 3, 2008, 10:16 am
#222
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Richmond, BC, Canada
Posts: 1,511
Oct 3, 2008, 12:10 pm
#223
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: YOW
Programs: AC E75K *G
Posts: 7,108
If anybody did receive the 20k certs after getting early E (starting from basic or P) in 2008 please post here.
Oct 3, 2008, 1:58 pm
#224
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Canada
Programs: AC*SE
Posts: 1,924
Mildly off topic... but this delay in mileage posting is driving me nuts, my flights from last Saturday posted fine putting at me at 33,000 and some odd, but my flight from Sunday night (that would put me just over 35,000) still hasn't posted yet. Driving me nuts when I check each day!
Oh well, I need to learn some patience..
Oh well, I need to learn some patience..
Oct 3, 2008, 4:07 pm
#225
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Home - YYZ
Programs: AC*E, HHonors Gold, SPG Gold, Hertz Presidents Circle
Posts: 778
I'll be getting my AC*E back as of 10/09/08. Well, once the MILE post from my flights current to 10/09/08 anyway.
I'll be sure to hound AC on it and keep my boarding passes. 2 of the 6 flights are on AC metal, the rest are UA code shares - yeah, I'm playing with fire
I'll be sure to hound AC on it and keep my boarding passes. 2 of the 6 flights are on AC metal, the rest are UA code shares - yeah, I'm playing with fire