Promo: Double EQM - again! DBLEQ, Sep 2 - Dec 15 2009 (consolidated)
Sep 21, 2009, 4:13 pm
#376
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP 1.4 MM Hertz Gold, National Executive Elite, Starwood Gold, Hyat Gold
Posts: 367
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Sep 21, 2009, 4:18 pm
#377
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: AA EXP, 1 MM, AC, HH Diamond, Marriott Silver, Hertz 5*
Posts: 4,010
No.
Though you are not the first to raise the question. And welcome to FT, Davidwnc. You'd be doing yourself a favor by reading the stickies and wikis in this forum for lots of ways to maximize your miles.
Though you are not the first to raise the question. And welcome to FT, Davidwnc. You'd be doing yourself a favor by reading the stickies and wikis in this forum for lots of ways to maximize your miles.
Sep 21, 2009, 4:23 pm
#378
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SLC
Programs: AA EXP, DL GLD, STARWOOD GLD, HH SLVR, HYATT GLD, GPP SLVR
Posts: 163
I have booked a MR (LHR - DFW - EWR JFK -LHR) for an upcomming weekend (leave Saturday morning arrive back sunday evening.) I am doing this simply for the DEQMs. I am content that I had to pay that fare to get what I want....but do I actually have to take the flight(s)? I would prefer to just get the (D)EQMs and RDMs and not have to spend the time and energy actually doing the trip - if AA would just give me the milage as if I were on the flight. They can keep my airfare and the extra fuel it would cost them haulling me around. I don't suppose there is anyone at AA that can arrange it, is there?
Sep 21, 2009, 4:24 pm
#379
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 10,949
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There is a reason they are called BIS (butt in seat) miles.
There is a reason they are called BIS (butt in seat) miles.
Sep 21, 2009, 4:51 pm
#380
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SJC/VCE
Programs: AA PLT (2.9+ MM), HH GLD, Hyatt Diamond, SPG PLT
Posts: 10,161
Furthermore, if one doesn't like to fly/want to travel; then what is the point of gaining elite status w/an airline.
Sep 21, 2009, 4:57 pm
#381
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
"Ya gotta do the time, if you want status and free wine."
AAdvantage Terms and Conditions (NOT!)
Don't show up and get your boarding pases validated, you lose the moolah and the miles.
And welcome to FlyerTalk - which will undoubtedly help with the status and more.
AAdvantage Terms and Conditions (NOT!)
Don't show up and get your boarding pases validated, you lose the moolah and the miles.
And welcome to FlyerTalk - which will undoubtedly help with the status and more.
Sep 21, 2009, 5:02 pm
#382
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 129
That might be why they call it a frequent flyer program and not a frequent 'buy some miles toward elite qualification' program
Sep 21, 2009, 5:03 pm
#383
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2006
Programs: Fabulous on one of the US carriers..
Posts: 11,878
I have several MRs on AA - in Y and am NOT looking forward to them as they mostly involve same day turns. But the benefits I will (hopefully) reap will make up for it.
Heck I thought about buying my twin a few tickets to do a few MRs for me but that probably wouldn't end well.
Sep 21, 2009, 5:19 pm
#384
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: BRU
Posts: 290
Thank you to everyone for your help...it was the answer I was expecting, if not the answer I was hoping for....
Sep 21, 2009, 6:03 pm
#385
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Flying weeknds are tough. A Challenge on the lowest fares would earn you Plat with only 20,000 miles BIS - both would end 28 Feb 2011.
Good flying to you!
Good flying to you!
It isn't that I don't like to fly/travel, it's that I don't enjoy sitting in a peasant class seat for the better part of 36 hours merely to get DEQMs to get PLT, which I am doing because, with my travel plans over the next 12 months will more than pay for itself....
Thank you to everyone for your help...it was the answer I was expecting, if not the answer I was hoping for....
Thank you to everyone for your help...it was the answer I was expecting, if not the answer I was hoping for....
Sep 21, 2009, 6:23 pm
#386
Join Date: Feb 2008
Programs: UA AA MR HH B6
Posts: 1,419
Curious....if you get original routing credit on a flight....does that qualify for double elite miles? sorry if that's already posted somewhere
Sep 21, 2009, 6:58 pm
#387
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Ewr
Posts: 70
Thanks for the information. I was wondering about the same question and about to send them an email. Now all my questions have been answered.
Sep 21, 2009, 8:09 pm
#388
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SEA
Programs: AA EXP (2.5MM), Hilton Gold, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 4,859
It isn't that I don't like to fly/travel, it's that I don't enjoy sitting in a peasant class seat for the better part of 36 hours merely to get DEQMs to get PLT, which I am doing because, with my travel plans over the next 12 months will more than pay for itself....
Thank you to everyone for your help...it was the answer I was expecting, if not the answer I was hoping for....
Thank you to everyone for your help...it was the answer I was expecting, if not the answer I was hoping for....
Problem solved!
Sep 21, 2009, 8:29 pm
#389
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: AA EXP, 1 MM, AC, HH Diamond, Marriott Silver, Hertz 5*
Posts: 4,010
If you're not elite, which you wouldn't be starting out, then Citi limits mileage earning to 100,000 (personal platinum Mastercard or Amex) or 150,000 (business card) miles per calendar year. So the limit would be in place until reaching lifetime gold at 1MM.
After that, you could go ahead and plunk down the next million $$$ to reach lifetime plat.
Sep 21, 2009, 8:39 pm
#390
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: OAK
Programs: AS MVPG 100k
Posts: 3,756
Not that I would ever recommend this, or even suggest that anybody actually do it, but as a thought experiment it has always seemed to me that if Pax A books a refundable fare and Pax B books a deep discount fare, and both Pax A and B meet inside security, swap BPs, then Pax A can cancel and get a refund, and take Bs BPs, and do the flights, while Pax B goes home and collects the DEQMs.
Very unlikely to get caught, though get ready for the cavity search (and worse) if you were caught. And it does require you to find somebody else willing to fly for you.
Very unlikely to get caught, though get ready for the cavity search (and worse) if you were caught. And it does require you to find somebody else willing to fly for you.