Sep 9, 2013, 10:46 am
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Good day new AA flyers and those seeking AA status through this promotion,
In the interest of keeping this thread on topic and relevant, I'd like to add some clarity for our newer AAdvantage members here. While there is a wealth of information in this thread on the promotion in question, this thread is not a help desk for questions that are readily answered in forum FAQs.
For those with questions about how the AAdvantage programme works, please start with the sticky threads at the top of the forum thread list. The FAQs especially have a lot of helpful information. If you're still stuck, and you feel you've got a "basic" question, try the Newbie Lounge. If your question is specific to one of the topics covered in our Help Desk threads, head there for answers. If a consolidated thread already exists, check there first to see if your question is answered already.
This thread will be more strictly moderated to ensure it stays on topic. We welcome all new AA flyers to the fold, but posts need to stay on topic to keep our forum organised and findable. Thanks to everyone for cooperating and understanding.
~Moderator
Fast Track To Elite Promo (2013 - no fee or EQP requirement) [TARGETED? Link dead.]
Aug 15, 2013, 8:38 pm
#496
Moderator: Alaska Mileage Plan
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 12,320
And, as we see in this thread, what else has happened is that somebody who otherwise qualifies under what was posted in the EXP group was told they don't qualify and was given 1,000 courtesy miles.
So honestly, we really still don't have an answer, and this highlights something AA still really sucks at: social media communication.
So honestly, we really still don't have an answer, and this highlights something AA still really sucks at: social media communication.
Aug 15, 2013, 9:38 pm
#499
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: DCA
Programs: US CP, DL GM, AA Plat
Posts: 729
There is no way AA is going to check time stamps to determine who registered after the link was pulled. Too much work.
Aug 15, 2013, 9:40 pm
#500
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DL: Silver; AA: EX PLAT; UA: Silver; HY: DIA; HH: DIA; MR: TIT
Posts: 1,708
Aug 15, 2013, 9:43 pm
#501
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: msp
Programs: AA PLT 3MM, DL PM 2MM
Posts: 1,142
Just staying at DELTA
PTL LT here and was using again a bit more AA. Thinking how do I plan 2014 to hit Executive Platinum with the usual requirements to do so (BIS). Then just get frustrated at an offer like this even though I understand not many may actually go through with it. BUT makes me just tough it through over at DL where the planes run on time, get upgraded now as a DM often and now don't have to wait on the merger go or no go. But again, AA LISTEN if you want customers who are loyal don't just go out and give away status. Others may disagree but I have a buck to spend and I'll spend it where I get some loyalty. That's me.
Aug 15, 2013, 10:09 pm
#502
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: SNA
Posts: 18,240
And it was active at 2:34 EST (post 84) when I referenced it. Didn't think to take a screenshot of it and only took a screenshot of the offer page that the link took me to (i had signed up before 2 pm according to my confirmation email). By 4:20 or so they removed all evidence of the post on LinkedIn but the link was active until just after 5:00 pm
Aug 15, 2013, 10:35 pm
#503
Used to be 'flymanbeast'
Join Date: Jul 2011
Programs: Delta silver/marriot platinum
Posts: 2,795
The AA webmaster (The email address) Said i was enrolled so not sure
Aug 16, 2013, 5:36 am
#504
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: NYC
Programs: Amtrak Select Plus, Marriott Platinum, Marriott Lifetime Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,123
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They need to tell us definitively one way or the other. I'm holding off on booking a J trip to Europe due to this. If not qualified/confirmed, I will go with VS or DL.
They need to tell us definitively one way or the other. I'm holding off on booking a J trip to Europe due to this. If not qualified/confirmed, I will go with VS or DL.
Aug 16, 2013, 5:40 am
#505
formerly gohima
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 519
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They need to tell us definitively one way or the other. I'm holding off on booking a J trip to Europe due to this. If not qualified/confirmed, I will go with VS or DL.
They need to tell us definitively one way or the other. I'm holding off on booking a J trip to Europe due to this. If not qualified/confirmed, I will go with VS or DL.
I am also holding off on booking a couple extra transcons until I know what is happening.
Aug 16, 2013, 8:02 am
#506
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 6,437
Continuing my TB linking, a bit of advice:
http://www.travelingbetter.com/forum...9&postcount=25
http://www.travelingbetter.com/forum...9&postcount=25
Aug 16, 2013, 8:23 am
#507
Join Date: Aug 2013
Programs: AA PLT
Posts: 8
I am the problem with this promotion.
I only started reading FT about two weeks ago (this is my first post ever) because I just got a job for which I will need to buy (and then expense) a few long-haul international flights over the next year or two. I've never been a member of any frequent flyer program and I don't have a co-branded airline credit card. I'm barely out of my twenties and I make $56,000/year. I fly Greyhound.
I saw the AA promo link here on FT just an hour or two after it was posted and realized I could make EXP, purely by coincidence. I happen to be booked JFK-MXP in Sept on AA (pure chance that I booked it with AA) and will also need to fly NYC-NRT before the end of the year, which I could do on AA as well. That's around 22,000 miles, and I figured I could easily squeeze in one more cheap trip overseas before New Year's, grab my EXP, fly in style through Feb 2015, and then never fly AA again if I don't feel like it. AA would get little money and even less loyalty from me, while I bask swank airport lounges and first-class dining options among people whose wardrobes cost more than my car.
I have no moral qualms about grabbing a promo that benefits me, even if it's a mistake. If there's one thing I've learned from reading these forums over the past couple weeks, it's that that's how the game is played. Yes, as a "fake" EXP I'd potentially be stealing upgrades from guys who spent 200 days in a plane this year, guys who are older and harder working and have spent decades scrambling up the ladder to these privileges. But I don't care. I wanted my brass ring, and there it was waiting for me on a velvet pillow. As someone who's never, ever turned left when he boarded an airplane, I decided to swipe myself a little slice of the statusphere.
Alas, I was busy cooking breakfast when I saw the link, decided I'd register later, and by the time I got around to it the promo was dead. Thank God for kettles
I only started reading FT about two weeks ago (this is my first post ever) because I just got a job for which I will need to buy (and then expense) a few long-haul international flights over the next year or two. I've never been a member of any frequent flyer program and I don't have a co-branded airline credit card. I'm barely out of my twenties and I make $56,000/year. I fly Greyhound.
I saw the AA promo link here on FT just an hour or two after it was posted and realized I could make EXP, purely by coincidence. I happen to be booked JFK-MXP in Sept on AA (pure chance that I booked it with AA) and will also need to fly NYC-NRT before the end of the year, which I could do on AA as well. That's around 22,000 miles, and I figured I could easily squeeze in one more cheap trip overseas before New Year's, grab my EXP, fly in style through Feb 2015, and then never fly AA again if I don't feel like it. AA would get little money and even less loyalty from me, while I bask swank airport lounges and first-class dining options among people whose wardrobes cost more than my car.
I have no moral qualms about grabbing a promo that benefits me, even if it's a mistake. If there's one thing I've learned from reading these forums over the past couple weeks, it's that that's how the game is played. Yes, as a "fake" EXP I'd potentially be stealing upgrades from guys who spent 200 days in a plane this year, guys who are older and harder working and have spent decades scrambling up the ladder to these privileges. But I don't care. I wanted my brass ring, and there it was waiting for me on a velvet pillow. As someone who's never, ever turned left when he boarded an airplane, I decided to swipe myself a little slice of the statusphere.
Alas, I was busy cooking breakfast when I saw the link, decided I'd register later, and by the time I got around to it the promo was dead. Thank God for kettles
Aug 16, 2013, 8:53 am
#508
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2008
Location: CHA, MAN;
Programs: Delta DM 1 MM; Hz PC
Posts: 11,169
I registered. ONe reason and one reason only - I saw it on Flyertalk.
I have an AAdvanatge account but am not elite. It seemed to good to be true so I registered right there and then and it accepted me. Now it can be argued since I am a newly minted Delta DM, I would be on their target list anyway. We will have to see. Let us see if the AA upgrade gods smile on me.
I have an AAdvanatge account but am not elite. It seemed to good to be true so I registered right there and then and it accepted me. Now it can be argued since I am a newly minted Delta DM, I would be on their target list anyway. We will have to see. Let us see if the AA upgrade gods smile on me.
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Aug 16, 2013, 9:13 am
#509
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DL: Silver; AA: EX PLAT; UA: Silver; HY: DIA; HH: DIA; MR: TIT
Posts: 1,708
I am the problem with this promotion.
I only started reading FT about two weeks ago (this is my first post ever) because I just got a job for which I will need to buy (and then expense) a few long-haul international flights over the next year or two. I've never been a member of any frequent flyer program and I don't have a co-branded airline credit card. I'm barely out of my twenties and I make $56,000/year. I fly Greyhound.
I saw the AA promo link here on FT just an hour or two after it was posted and realized I could make EXP, purely by coincidence. I happen to be booked JFK-MXP in Sept on AA (pure chance that I booked it with AA) and will also need to fly NYC-NRT before the end of the year, which I could do on AA as well. That's around 22,000 miles, and I figured I could easily squeeze in one more cheap trip overseas before New Year's, grab my EXP, fly in style through Feb 2015, and then never fly AA again if I don't feel like it. AA would get little money and even less loyalty from me, while I bask swank airport lounges and first-class dining options among people whose wardrobes cost more than my car.
I have no moral qualms about grabbing a promo that benefits me, even if it's a mistake. If there's one thing I've learned from reading these forums over the past couple weeks, it's that that's how the game is played. Yes, as a "fake" EXP I'd potentially be stealing upgrades from guys who spent 200 days in a plane this year, guys who are older and harder working and have spent decades scrambling up the ladder to these privileges. But I don't care. I wanted my brass ring, and there it was waiting for me on a velvet pillow. As someone who's never, ever turned left when he boarded an airplane, I decided to swipe myself a little slice of the statusphere.
Alas, I was busy cooking breakfast when I saw the link, decided I'd register later, and by the time I got around to it the promo was dead. Thank God for kettles
I only started reading FT about two weeks ago (this is my first post ever) because I just got a job for which I will need to buy (and then expense) a few long-haul international flights over the next year or two. I've never been a member of any frequent flyer program and I don't have a co-branded airline credit card. I'm barely out of my twenties and I make $56,000/year. I fly Greyhound.
I saw the AA promo link here on FT just an hour or two after it was posted and realized I could make EXP, purely by coincidence. I happen to be booked JFK-MXP in Sept on AA (pure chance that I booked it with AA) and will also need to fly NYC-NRT before the end of the year, which I could do on AA as well. That's around 22,000 miles, and I figured I could easily squeeze in one more cheap trip overseas before New Year's, grab my EXP, fly in style through Feb 2015, and then never fly AA again if I don't feel like it. AA would get little money and even less loyalty from me, while I bask swank airport lounges and first-class dining options among people whose wardrobes cost more than my car.
I have no moral qualms about grabbing a promo that benefits me, even if it's a mistake. If there's one thing I've learned from reading these forums over the past couple weeks, it's that that's how the game is played. Yes, as a "fake" EXP I'd potentially be stealing upgrades from guys who spent 200 days in a plane this year, guys who are older and harder working and have spent decades scrambling up the ladder to these privileges. But I don't care. I wanted my brass ring, and there it was waiting for me on a velvet pillow. As someone who's never, ever turned left when he boarded an airplane, I decided to swipe myself a little slice of the statusphere.
Alas, I was busy cooking breakfast when I saw the link, decided I'd register later, and by the time I got around to it the promo was dead. Thank God for kettles
Also, consider a gold/platinum challenge if your fare basis makes it worth it.
Aug 16, 2013, 9:56 am
#510
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: OKC
Programs: IHG Spire, National Exec, AA Plat
Posts: 2,274
Things like this really push the limits of my loyalty to businesses. If UA wasn't so bad right now, I would probably have jumped ship, but out of OKC the only realistic options for my travel pattern are UA or AA.