pixpixpix

Donate $49.50 to the National Parks Foundation or $247.50 to UNICEF. Even if they don't post in time, you will know you have the miles!!

pixpixpix

No but it does mean you get the 25% bonus miles forever, no matter how much you fly.

(Or 100% if you make platinum any year).

bobd46

I rolled over the 1MM mark on Jan 15 of this year, but as of today (Feb 12) I have seen nothing from AA reference this milestone. No email, no new stickers in my account, nothing. My online account does show lifetime miles at 1,005,279 but that is the only indication I have. Should I be worried that I have been overlooked?

oklAAhoma

No, you really shouldn't be worried... yet.
But seriously, it really hasn't been an overlong period of time and I expect your packet will arrive any day now.

However, why not make a quick phone call to AA? That would be the best way to alleviate your concerns. It matters more what AA tells you than what we here have to say about it.

Edited to add:
Welcome to (posting on) FlyerTalk!

bobd46

Thanks for the welcome from another Okie - long time lurker, first time poster . I called the AA PLT desk and found out that they are currently doing annual maintenance, but she confirmed my status and said I should receive my notification in early March (after I have been demoted to GLD ) and the luggage tags will be gold ones.

oklAAhoma

Somehow that seems unfair because everybody knows that the PLT million mile tags will make you appear much more important than the GLD ones ever could. Well, maybe you'll get lucky and they'll send out the package earlier than the agent stated. Hopefully, some time this month while you're still PLT.

jaynyc

No one told you? Ed McMahon will be delivering the packet to your house. Sometimes he brings a check!

mdf63

I happily crossed the 1mm threshhold today! I imagine most people won't care, but this stuff fascinates me, and where else can one share meaningless minutae like this...here are some stats on my million miles earned with AA.

It took me 7 years + 1 month to earn the million. I signed up in Jan 00. In those 7 years I was:
Gld 4 years
PLT 2 years
No status in 1 year (unemployed!)

1m miles breakdown:
337k = flight miles
192k = bonus miles for Gld/Plt status
323k = Citibank Mastercard miles
8k = hotel bonuses
14k = dining miles
126k = Miscellaneous, including AA shopping, car rentals, AA.com reservations bonuses, and various other AA special offers.

Thanks for indulging me.

oklAAhoma

You're welcome. Congrats.

Indo-flyer

Congrats! Wow, you keep amazing records ^ I also just made the 1MM in about 7 years, but have no clue as to my breakdown.

brp

I know all about my breakdown...but I'm much better now...

Cheers.

jragosta

I agree with you.

In general, I would think that the airline's higher priority is rewarding passengers who flew recently. In that view, the person who flew 100,000 miles last year (exp) is more valuable to the airline than someone who flew 1,000,000 miles in the 80s and flies very little now.

Furthermore, most EXPs are probably either million milers or close to it and a high percentage are probably 2 million milers, so the premise that lifetime PTs are more valuable is erroneous. Keep in mind that in order to get EXP, you're going to fly 100,000 miles, but that should be worth at least 200,000 (and probably more like 300,000) Aadvantage miles and lifetime miles after you add in all the bonuses. The biggest priority for the airline is someone who is both lifetime PT and current EXP.

I agree that they'll change the program some day (probably counting only actual miles flown in the million miler program), but hope they hold of another 18 months or so until I hit 2 million miles and lifetime PT.

oldAGE

OK! Now you've done it! I have been thinking about asking this question for years. I often fight with Customer Service for support and have to indicate the quantity of revenue that I have generated for AA vs. the miles flown. Why? Because I am a "short hopper" more than a long hauler. I have lived aboard "the flying shoe box," iced over in ATRs, rubbed the shoulders of tired JetStream FOs, sat back with my champagne in the luxury and speed of the SAABs, reveled in the joy of the Fokker 100, and now live life in cramped and sore arsed style in RJs....

So, without further ado -- can anyone answer "What percentage of AAdvantage members are:"

1) Gold
2) Plat
3) ExPlat
4) 1 Million Milers
5) 2 Million Milers
6) Greater than 3 Million Milers

Finally - being a founding member of AAdvantage, I receive nothing in the way of special service or even an ability to converse with an empowered Customer Service rep at American Airlines. So, yes, if you fly with us regularly in the last 18 months, you get what you need. If you fly with us regularly over 25 years... you get nada!

It will be interesting statistics -- to me anyway. I look forward to the answers.

Thanks.
AGE
975,000 miles AA Gold ^
2+ Million on everyone else...

jabrams72

Most of this has been asked before and there have been some fairly knowledgeable guesses; although you'll see a lot of variation in them.
Do a search and see what you find. However, this is proprietary information that the airlines are understandably reticent to give out.

oldAGE

Oh well... I guess I will get the usual WAGs as has been posted previously -- Answers like 250,000 Gold vs. 2+ million Gold have been reported in the previous threads I had found. That is the reason I asked again. It is now many years later and thought that someone might have more accurate accounting.

And so it goes...
AGE