ARCHIVE: 2017 "Sticker" / 500-mile & EXP "UDU" Complimentary Upgrade Policy / FAQ
#213
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Earth
Programs: AA - EXP 1MM, Marriott/SPG Plat, Hilton Gold, BA, DL, TWA Royal Ambassador
Posts: 309
EXP Earning Coupons
I am finally about to earn EXP and I understand that EXP and PltPro receive upgrades without needing 500 mile Upgrades.... Currently I have 61 of them. Let's say next year I only fly 50K miles and only earn Plt. If I want to upgrade as a Plt then I will need to access my upgrade bank. While an EXP do you still earn 500 Mile Upgrades? Will I only have my 61 coupons regardless of how many miles I fly? If you drop back to Plt or lower does AA calculate how many, if any, 500 miles coupons would have been left over and then credit you with those when you are program downgraded? I hope I am making sense.... Thanks... Jon
#214
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: PHL
Programs: AA Executive Platinum; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,663
You stop earning stickers as EXP or PP. If you drop status, you will still have your 61 stickers to use as Platinum or Gold.
#215
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Earth
Programs: AA - EXP 1MM, Marriott/SPG Plat, Hilton Gold, BA, DL, TWA Royal Ambassador
Posts: 309
#216
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: San Diego
Programs: Plat Pro AAdvantage, but defected to BAEC
Posts: 1,222
Any way to get credit for stickers earned whilst PP when no complimentary requests were made for the whole year? My wife will make PP with our BA F flight back to the UK at Christmas credited to AA. For all of next year our plans for AA are the F return home on BA, LAX-SYD in J/PE, a paid first SAN-CUN and then another J, or F flight back to the UK next Christmas That's 50,000+miles, so would normally accrue at least 16 stickers. It would suck to earn nothing and yet at the same time not require any upgrades as there is no qualifying economy travel planned.
#217
Join Date: Jul 2001
Programs: AA EP
Posts: 2,203
Unfortunately no. PP, EP, and CK do not earn any stickers while they have this status level.
Any way to get credit for stickers earned whilst PP when no complimentary requests were made for the whole year? My wife will make PP with our BA F flight back to the UK at Christmas credited to AA. For all of next year our plans for AA are the F return home on BA, LAX-SYD in J/PE, a paid first SAN-CUN and then another J, or F flight back to the UK next Christmas That's 50,000+miles, so would normally accrue at least 16 stickers. It would suck to earn nothing and yet at the same time not require any upgrades as there is no qualifying economy travel planned.
#218
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,018
This may be a lost cause - but wanted to get an opinion:
I was Plat when I boarded HKG-DFW flight.
At the end of that segment I would have been 74000 EQM's.
I connected DFW-XXX ....which put me over 75000 EQMs (and the EQD needed)....to get me to Plat Pro.
I thought I would get 4 500-mile certs for the HKG-DFW leg in paid-C (which was 16K EQM),,,,....unfortunately AA counted the trip as a whole one-way...as though I went straight from Plat to Plat Pro. Therefore I did not get 4 ecerts.
These flights were definitely not "through flights"...completely different flight numbers, etc.
Do I have a case to ask for 4 certs...since if I had stopped my journey at DFW, I would have got them?
I do not know much about AA....so, just wondering how it works.
I was Plat when I boarded HKG-DFW flight.
At the end of that segment I would have been 74000 EQM's.
I connected DFW-XXX ....which put me over 75000 EQMs (and the EQD needed)....to get me to Plat Pro.
I thought I would get 4 500-mile certs for the HKG-DFW leg in paid-C (which was 16K EQM),,,,....unfortunately AA counted the trip as a whole one-way...as though I went straight from Plat to Plat Pro. Therefore I did not get 4 ecerts.
These flights were definitely not "through flights"...completely different flight numbers, etc.
Do I have a case to ask for 4 certs...since if I had stopped my journey at DFW, I would have got them?
I do not know much about AA....so, just wondering how it works.
#219
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: MSN
Programs: AA, BAEC Gold
Posts: 3,929
This may be a lost cause - but wanted to get an opinion:
I was Plat when I boarded HKG-DFW flight.
At the end of that segment I would have been 74000 EQM's.
I connected DFW-XXX ....which put me over 75000 EQMs (and the EQD needed)....to get me to Plat Pro.
I thought I would get 4 500-mile certs for the HKG-DFW leg in paid-C (which was 16K EQM),,,,....unfortunately AA counted the trip as a whole one-way...as though I went straight from Plat to Plat Pro. Therefore I did not get 4 ecerts.
These flights were definitely not "through flights"...completely different flight numbers, etc.
Do I have a case to ask for 4 certs...since if I had stopped my journey at DFW, I would have got them?
I do not know much about AA....so, just wondering how it works.
I was Plat when I boarded HKG-DFW flight.
At the end of that segment I would have been 74000 EQM's.
I connected DFW-XXX ....which put me over 75000 EQMs (and the EQD needed)....to get me to Plat Pro.
I thought I would get 4 500-mile certs for the HKG-DFW leg in paid-C (which was 16K EQM),,,,....unfortunately AA counted the trip as a whole one-way...as though I went straight from Plat to Plat Pro. Therefore I did not get 4 ecerts.
These flights were definitely not "through flights"...completely different flight numbers, etc.
Do I have a case to ask for 4 certs...since if I had stopped my journey at DFW, I would have got them?
I do not know much about AA....so, just wondering how it works.
#220
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,018
Maybe I will email AAdvantage...
#221
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,018
OMG!
I emailed them, and the problem got resolved in one hour. Got the certs!
I emailed them, and the problem got resolved in one hour. Got the certs!
This may be a lost cause - but wanted to get an opinion:
I was Plat when I boarded HKG-DFW flight.
At the end of that segment I would have been 74000 EQM's.
I connected DFW-XXX ....which put me over 75000 EQMs (and the EQD needed)....to get me to Plat Pro.
I thought I would get 4 500-mile certs for the HKG-DFW leg in paid-C (which was 16K EQM),,,,....unfortunately AA counted the trip as a whole one-way...as though I went straight from Plat to Plat Pro. Therefore I did not get 4 ecerts.
These flights were definitely not "through flights"...completely different flight numbers, etc.
Do I have a case to ask for 4 certs...since if I had stopped my journey at DFW, I would have got them?
I do not know much about AA....so, just wondering how it works.
I was Plat when I boarded HKG-DFW flight.
At the end of that segment I would have been 74000 EQM's.
I connected DFW-XXX ....which put me over 75000 EQMs (and the EQD needed)....to get me to Plat Pro.
I thought I would get 4 500-mile certs for the HKG-DFW leg in paid-C (which was 16K EQM),,,,....unfortunately AA counted the trip as a whole one-way...as though I went straight from Plat to Plat Pro. Therefore I did not get 4 ecerts.
These flights were definitely not "through flights"...completely different flight numbers, etc.
Do I have a case to ask for 4 certs...since if I had stopped my journey at DFW, I would have got them?
I do not know much about AA....so, just wondering how it works.
#224
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: PHL
Programs: AA ExP, Marriott Amb, National EAE, Hilton Diamond, SPG Plat (RIP), US CP (RIP)
Posts: 2,379
#225
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA & UK -- AA EXP 3.5MM, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat, Avis President's Club
Posts: 6,411