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 24, 2008, 6:33 am
#31
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: MSY (finally); previously NYC, BOS, AUH
Programs: AA EXP, 6MM; BA GLD
Posts: 17,249
So now that we've confirmed that one can make EXP PLT (sic) via miles, points or segments, does this thread serve any further purpose?
Feb 24, 2008, 7:16 am
#32
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP / LT PLT / 3MM, Marriott LT Gold
Posts: 35,397
No doubt the findings will be published in some scholastic research paper.
For the purposes of the poll, I just woke up one morning in 2004 and felt this strange feeling of EXP-ness come over me. It's been there ever since. So there is at least a 4th way, aka the "immaculate qualification." Add in the EXP challenges, EXP comps, etc. and you have at least 6.
Feb 24, 2008, 7:24 am
#33
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SJC/VCE
Programs: AA PLT (2.9+ MM), HH GLD, Hyatt Diamond, SPG PLT
Posts: 10,161
It's a poll; don't you get it?
No doubt the findings will be published in some scholastic research paper.
For the purposes of the poll, I just woke up one morning in 2004 and felt this strange feeling of EXP-ness come over me. It's been there ever since. So there is at least a 4th way, aka the "immaculate qualification." Add in the EXP challenges, EXP comps, etc. and you have at least 6.
No doubt the findings will be published in some scholastic research paper.
For the purposes of the poll, I just woke up one morning in 2004 and felt this strange feeling of EXP-ness come over me. It's been there ever since. So there is at least a 4th way, aka the "immaculate qualification." Add in the EXP challenges, EXP comps, etc. and you have at least 6.
Feb 24, 2008, 7:51 am
#34
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Berlin
Programs: BA Gold; Accor Plat; IHG Diamond-Amb; Meliá & HH & Marriott Gold
Posts: 5,450
Supplementary: how many people have actually got EXP and how likely is my DFW-YVR upgrade to clear on March 9? Also, which is better on a 777, 10B or 45D?
Feb 24, 2008, 7:56 am
#35
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Berlin
Programs: BA Gold; Accor Plat; IHG Diamond-Amb; Meliá & HH & Marriott Gold
Posts: 5,450
Pleeeze PM me wiv details of you're secret method before you start seling it on eBay.
Feb 24, 2008, 8:10 am
#36
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,172
It's a poll; don't you get it?
No doubt the findings will be published in some scholastic research paper.
For the purposes of the poll, I just woke up one morning in 2004 and felt this strange feeling of EXP-ness come over me. It's been there ever since. So there is at least a 4th way, aka the "immaculate qualification." Add in the EXP challenges, EXP comps, etc. and you have at least 6.
No doubt the findings will be published in some scholastic research paper.
For the purposes of the poll, I just woke up one morning in 2004 and felt this strange feeling of EXP-ness come over me. It's been there ever since. So there is at least a 4th way, aka the "immaculate qualification." Add in the EXP challenges, EXP comps, etc. and you have at least 6.
Im gonna probably try for segments/miles. Policy is to travel the cheapest logical fare, so EQPs might be impossible.
Feb 24, 2008, 10:01 am
#37
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA & UK -- AA EXP 3.5MM, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat, Avis President's Club
Posts: 6,411
Put me down as yet another "immaculate qualification". I dunno exactly how it happens, except that I buy a lot of tickets on AA and they give me a shiny black-and-silver card each year. It's a fair swap.
Feb 24, 2008, 10:50 am
#38
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London
Programs: AA EXP, Qantas Gold, HHonors Gold, A|Club Gold, Marriott Silver, ICHG Gold
Posts: 68
Made it (for the first time ever) by points last year. A lot of international business, supplemented by a return trip LHR-ADL mostly in discount WT+ on BA (a very cheap way to get 1.5 points/mile for long-haul).
Feb 24, 2008, 11:01 am
#39
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 10,949
I flew a lot, and boy are my arms tired.
Feb 24, 2008, 11:13 am
#40
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: bay area, california
Programs: aa exp 1MM, alaska air, united, hhonors gold, spg gold
Posts: 686
You can buy it.
The company that is. Market capitalization is $5+B and I'm sure they would accept a good offer. And you could make it a condition of purchase that you get EXP status.
Feb 24, 2008, 12:47 pm
#41
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Barbados
Programs: AA PLT 6MM
Posts: 633
I make EXP the old fashioned way, BIS miles, usually around 105,000 but never anywhere near $20K, more like $4,000.00.
Feb 24, 2008, 12:55 pm
#42
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SJC/VCE
Programs: AA PLT (2.9+ MM), HH GLD, Hyatt Diamond, SPG PLT
Posts: 10,161
There are several of us who have posted the breakdown - and I can't seem to find that thread. Cheap int'l fares (i.e 600.00 SFO-FCO) combined with transcons in the 300.00rt range.
Feb 24, 2008, 12:57 pm
#43
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: SJC
Programs: AA EXP, BA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton diamond, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 33,535
Cheers.
Feb 24, 2008, 12:58 pm
#44
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2001
Location: LAX; AA EXP, MM; HH Gold
Posts: 31,789
Couple weeks ago, aa.com featured some mistakes (for just a couple hours) of $267 all-in for LAX-SJU connecting at JFK or BOS. More than 8,300 eqms. Very cheap.
Feb 24, 2008, 12:59 pm
#45
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SJC/VCE
Programs: AA PLT (2.9+ MM), HH GLD, Hyatt Diamond, SPG PLT
Posts: 10,161