View Poll Results: How did you achieve Executive Platinum status?
100k EQ miles
59
42.14%
100k EQ points
50
35.71%
100 segments
25
17.86%
Other
6
4.29%
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How did you become Executive Platinum / EXP?
Feb 23, 2008, 4:30 pm
#17
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: COS
Programs: AA EXP (1MM), Marriott Platinum
Posts: 111
Last year I made it on points, then miles, then segments. A trip to HKG and BOM in J really helps with the points.
Feb 23, 2008, 5:05 pm
#19
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SoCal
Programs: SQ S-PPS, UA 1K, HH Diamond
Posts: 78
I usually make it on points. I then switch to UA to make 1K. Lots of intl paid C class does it.
Feb 23, 2008, 7:16 pm
#20
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Programs: AA Executive Platinum 3.2 MM, Hyatt Diamond, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 109
I make it on points first and then on miles as well.
Feb 23, 2008, 8:12 pm
#21
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Massachusetts, USA; AA Plat, DL GM and Flying Colonel; Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 24,233
Always on miles the years I made it, except for 2002 when I was carried over. (Had 75K through Sept. 10 of the previous year and was on target for the rest. Then the world changed. One more trip in the remaining almost 4 months.)
Feb 23, 2008, 8:27 pm
#22
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: MEL/LAX
Programs: AAdv GLD(MM), QF LTS, UA MP_nada, HH Gld, SPG, GoldenCircle Jade
Posts: 4,472
First points, then miles - never on segments.
Feb 23, 2008, 8:34 pm
#23
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: bay area, california
Programs: aa exp 1MM, alaska air, united, hhonors gold, spg gold
Posts: 686
Sit in a comfortable seat, preferably aisle, hopefully J, for 6.79 seconds.
Rinse and repeat 100 thousand times.
Rinse and repeat 100 thousand times.
Feb 23, 2008, 8:36 pm
#24
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, HH Diamond, Avis First
Posts: 101
114 segments in 07, out of DFW. It's not easy, but it's worth it.
Feb 23, 2008, 9:13 pm
#25
formerly gemini573
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: LAX, HKG, and BKK
Programs: CX Emerald, WOH Globalist, Marriott Platinum, AA Lifetime Platinum, Virtuoso, Prive, STEPS, STARS
Posts: 2,233
I made EXP the past couple of years based on points. Lots of ex-CMB or ex-TPE tickets on CX. Typically do about 3 of those per year and then a few AA flights in between.
Feb 23, 2008, 9:15 pm
#26
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: DFW, SEA and AA in between
Programs: AA-3MM-ExPLT
Posts: 1,146
115K mi / 94 seg
Feb 23, 2008, 9:23 pm
#27
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP 1.4 MM Hertz Gold, National Executive Elite, Starwood Gold, Hyat Gold
Posts: 367
segments
Feb 23, 2008, 9:45 pm
#28
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2002
Location: NYC, USA
Programs: AA EXP 3MM, Lifetime Platinum, Marriott Titanium, HH Gold
Posts: 10,968
In 2007, via points. I reached 108k points and 88k miles by Dec 31. Thanks to ricktoronto and his superb fares out of YYZ!
Feb 23, 2008, 10:11 pm
#29
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MCI
Programs: AA EXP (1.5MM), Hilton/SPG/Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,335
AKA< No direct flights.
Feb 23, 2008, 11:48 pm
#30
Join Date: Sep 2006
Programs: AA EXP 2MM, SPG Platinum, Hyatt Platinum, Marriott Silver
Posts: 446
Points through transpac flying on codeshares.
Four trips over in J, each time from the US on a codeshare (once on MU LAX-PVG and three times BR LAX-TPE), returned once on AA metal, twice on JL and once AA/BR codeshare. It also helped that connecting in TPE to HKG or NRT added distance as well. With some personal trips, finished with 104K EQP, 79K EQM.
Four trips over in J, each time from the US on a codeshare (once on MU LAX-PVG and three times BR LAX-TPE), returned once on AA metal, twice on JL and once AA/BR codeshare. It also helped that connecting in TPE to HKG or NRT added distance as well. With some personal trips, finished with 104K EQP, 79K EQM.