Disadvantages of AA?
Feb 16, 2009, 3:33 pm
#16
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Cheers.
Feb 16, 2009, 3:35 pm
#17
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)You can qualify by EQM, EQP, or segments. Full details:
http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?...quirements.jsp
Feb 16, 2009, 3:35 pm
#18
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I read the brochure of EXP but didn't read the fine print.
Sounds awesome. Seems like AAdvantage is my new programme.
Addendum: I've read this page. Excuse this question, however, if I earn bonus miles do they count, or is the way to earn *elite status* by this chart only (not counting the bonus miles elites already earn, just by flying biz/first)?
Sounds awesome. Seems like AAdvantage is my new programme.
Addendum: I've read this page. Excuse this question, however, if I earn bonus miles do they count, or is the way to earn *elite status* by this chart only (not counting the bonus miles elites already earn, just by flying biz/first)?
Feb 16, 2009, 3:35 pm
#19
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Yes, but it would be mathematically impossible to have more than 120k eqps with 80k eqms. You could theoretically earn EXP at 66,667 eqms if all were at full fare coach or premium cabin fares.
Feb 16, 2009, 3:38 pm
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So, if earned in 2009, EXP would expire at the end of Feb 2011.
Additionally, based on last year's experiences, if you fail to qualify for any status in 2010, then on March 1, 2011 you would only be dropped to Platinum.
As a bonus, if you signed up for AADER (also a double EQM promo), you would have received a bonus for getting at least 125K EQM/EQP in 2008. You could choose from among 2 Systemwide upgrades, 25K redeemable miles, gold status for a friend, and I forget the rest.
Feb 16, 2009, 3:39 pm
#21
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Okay. So I take it the 50/100 per cent bonuses mean nothing in calculating the EQPs.
Feb 16, 2009, 3:41 pm
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Feb 16, 2009, 3:44 pm
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Feb 16, 2009, 3:53 pm
#24
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Also, with AA, once you earn 1,000,000 lifetime miles (from any source, including credit card spending), you will be Gold for life; and at 2,000,000 you will be Platinum for life. I passed that 2,000,000 threshold 3 years ago and I am PLT for life even though I don't fly that much any more because I am now retired. But the few times a year I fly AA or a one-world partner, I am given all the benefits of a PLT customer. I don't think any other airline offers this, but I am not sure.
Feb 16, 2009, 4:37 pm
#25
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Also, with AA, once you earn 1,000,000 lifetime miles (from any source, including credit card spending), you will be Gold for life; and at 2,000,000 you will be Platinum for life. I passed that 2,000,000 threshold 3 years ago and I am PLT for life even though I don't fly that much any more because I am now retired. But the few times a year I fly AA or a one-world partner, I am given all the benefits of a PLT customer. I don't think any other airline offers this, but I am not sure.
Feb 16, 2009, 4:43 pm
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Feb 16, 2009, 10:08 pm
#29
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UA counts only flight (or BIS) miles earned on UA metal
DL counts all EQMs, regardless of how you earned them
CO counts all EQMs, regardless of how you earned them AND gives you the opportunity to register a spouse/partner to share your Elite level.
US, to my knowledge, has eliminated any formal million-miler program.
Feb 16, 2009, 10:49 pm
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One of the few disadvantages with AA are the decreasing number of partners, the lack of partners within the US (east), the few miles that the existing members give. One can book codeshares and earn miles like it was an AA flights (i.e. unlike * the rules of the flight# apply). However codeshares could be more expensive.