Jan 4, 2017, 11:08 pm
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Just made EXP / Executive Platinum! Resources, ask questions, brag (2017+)
First, a hearty welcome to Executive Platinum status!
New Executive Platinum members, whether "self-made", via your Concierge Key nomination or made by AA offers, including challenges, to similar status holders from competing airlines, often have questions about how the program works.
Feel free to post your questions here, but also be aware many of your questions about American Airlines, AAdvantage and Executive Platinum status can be answered in these resources:
● Link to What are Executive Platinum / EP / EXP benefits? Are they worth it? (consolidated) thread on FT
● Link to AAdvantage Elite Status guide and charts on aa.com
● Link to "FAQ: American Airlines and AAdvantage - Please check here first!" thread.
● Link to the FlyerGuide American Airlines Wiki
For older posts, please see Just made EXP / Executive Platinum! Resources, ask questions, brag (pre-2017)● Link to AAdvantage Elite Status guide and charts on aa.com
● Link to "FAQ: American Airlines and AAdvantage - Please check here first!" thread.
● Link to the FlyerGuide American Airlines Wiki
Just made EXP / Executive Platinum! Resources, ask questions, brag (2017+)
Oct 26, 2017, 1:30 pm
#136
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: AUS
Programs: AA Exec Platinum/MM, DL Gold/MM, Hilton Diamond, Accor Platinum, Hertz Presidents Circle
Posts: 6,961
Requalified on Sunday. 101,4xx EQM and 13,3xx EQD. Status updated and SWUs deposited within 24 hours of the final flight.
First time in two or three years I went over the EQM threshold without benefit of EQMs from the credit card.
One more trip booked this year that will add a few hundred to the EQD but I'm not liking what this is doing to my upgrade chances. I am traditionally an early booker and really benefited from the old scheme. This year's upgrade % is by far the worst since first becoming EXP in 2010.
First time in two or three years I went over the EQM threshold without benefit of EQMs from the credit card.
One more trip booked this year that will add a few hundred to the EQD but I'm not liking what this is doing to my upgrade chances. I am traditionally an early booker and really benefited from the old scheme. This year's upgrade % is by far the worst since first becoming EXP in 2010.
Oct 27, 2017, 9:28 am
#137
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Syracuse, NY
Programs: 1k UA, UA MM, AA EXPlat
Posts: 639
Just requalified with 120 segments, 14, 579 eqd, and 90109 eqm. I have had a great experience as a EXP this year.
Oct 27, 2017, 1:39 pm
#138
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: DAY
Programs: Marriott Platinum, HHonors Diamond, AA ExPLT
Posts: 116
First Time
First time making it, lots of time in CLT.
Oct 27, 2017, 2:30 pm
#139
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Here and there
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 1,551
Oct 27, 2017, 5:50 pm
#140
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Manhattan Beach, California
Programs: BMI Diamond Club Gold forever
Posts: 6,367
I rolled over 100k again to requalify last weekend on the way back from London, having passed through the EQD requirement back in June.
I had a really nice flight last night where my EXP status really helped, probably the nicest treatment by a few different AA frontline employees. I was travelling LAS-PHX-SEA and had a terrible layover, but upon landing in PHX it was clear the much earlier flight to SEA was still on the ground and so I went to the gate. As soon as the agent saw I was an EXP she said, "we'll hold it for you, come on over here" and reticketed me. I thought I had scored with a bulkhead row window but boarded to find a very large guy in the middle seat but plenty of empties a few rows back. I quickly went to the front and asked the FA if she could call back to the GA and get me another seat, and when she saw EXP on my BP she was accomodating and wrote down a list of 3 seats to chose from. I wound up getting an aisle exit row. And when they came around with the carts, they kept saying "we're not charging you for anything because you should have been in F" so I got taken care of nicely. EXP is nice!
I had a really nice flight last night where my EXP status really helped, probably the nicest treatment by a few different AA frontline employees. I was travelling LAS-PHX-SEA and had a terrible layover, but upon landing in PHX it was clear the much earlier flight to SEA was still on the ground and so I went to the gate. As soon as the agent saw I was an EXP she said, "we'll hold it for you, come on over here" and reticketed me. I thought I had scored with a bulkhead row window but boarded to find a very large guy in the middle seat but plenty of empties a few rows back. I quickly went to the front and asked the FA if she could call back to the GA and get me another seat, and when she saw EXP on my BP she was accomodating and wrote down a list of 3 seats to chose from. I wound up getting an aisle exit row. And when they came around with the carts, they kept saying "we're not charging you for anything because you should have been in F" so I got taken care of nicely. EXP is nice!
Oct 27, 2017, 8:43 pm
#141
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: DEN
Programs: AA EXP, AA Million Miles, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,581
Crossed over 100K EQM today IAD-CLT; the EQDs will have to wait a few weeks until my next international trip - in BA Premium Economy.
Oct 28, 2017, 12:55 pm
#142
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: DEN
Programs: Double OWE (AA EXP, QF Plat), FI Gold
Posts: 1,887
IIRC, there is no benefit beyond the additional 2 SWUs for hitting 200,000 EQMs, right?
Oct 28, 2017, 4:15 pm
#143
Join Date: May 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, LT Gold
Posts: 3,146
But there are accounts of getting more after 200K: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/28779195-post129.html
Oct 29, 2017, 6:02 am
#144
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: CNF/LAX/HKG/PVG
Programs: AA EXP, Lifetime PLT, Silver EK Skywards
Posts: 748
Requalified last week and got 2 more SWUs for a total of 6.
EQD: 15,547
EQM: 165,065
EQS: 35
One more international flights this year but not enough to go over 200k
EQD: 15,547
EQM: 165,065
EQS: 35
One more international flights this year but not enough to go over 200k
Oct 30, 2017, 9:29 am
#145
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: PHL
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 37
Re-qualified on Friday, EVV-ORD-PHL. Have a few more flights coming up the rest of the year, but thought it was pretty funny to hit the EQD threshold directly on the head...
Oct 31, 2017, 8:22 pm
#146
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: DEN
Programs: Double OWE (AA EXP, QF Plat), FI Gold
Posts: 1,887
No STATED, official benefit, no.
But there are accounts of getting more after 200K: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/28779195-post129.html
But there are accounts of getting more after 200K: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/28779195-post129.html
"Executive Platinum members get 4 systemwide upgrades when qualifying or re-qualifying. You can earn up to 4 more systemwide upgrades; 2 at 150,000 EQMs and 2 at 200,000 EQMs."
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...e-upgrades.jsp
Oct 31, 2017, 8:23 pm
#147
Join Date: May 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, LT Gold
Posts: 3,146
Thanks for the response, but I'm not sure what the post you pointed me to is supposed to say...AA says that we get 2 more SWUs at 150k and 200k EQMs, so that's why my question was posed as "beyond the additional 2 SWUs...".
"Executive Platinum members get 4 systemwide upgrades when qualifying or re-qualifying. You can earn up to 4 more systemwide upgrades; 2 at 150,000 EQMs and 2 at 200,000 EQMs."
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...e-upgrades.jsp
"Executive Platinum members get 4 systemwide upgrades when qualifying or re-qualifying. You can earn up to 4 more systemwide upgrades; 2 at 150,000 EQMs and 2 at 200,000 EQMs."
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...e-upgrades.jsp
Oct 31, 2017, 8:27 pm
#148
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: DEN
Programs: Double OWE (AA EXP, QF Plat), FI Gold
Posts: 1,887
Now that it's a "published benefit" I doubt that they'll go out of their way to do much more this year, but we shall see.
Oct 31, 2017, 11:18 pm
#149
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: STL/ORD/MCI/SAN
Programs: AA CK MM, AC SE100K, UA 1K, DL Plat, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 1,986
Pretty cool to hit it right on the head, especially as "the game" continues to spin out of control... never could have imagined an "elite qualifying dollar" on AA even just a few years ago. But, anyway, I love when stuff like that happens, so congrats. ^
Nov 1, 2017, 8:25 pm
#150
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: New home in BOS
Programs: AA EXP, UA Silver, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 21
After years of splitting my flights across UA/AA and never making it past 65K on AA, I committed to flying AA as much in 2017 and I made EXP flying DFW-HKG three days ago. I have never been so happy to see four SWUs in my account.
Since my work has just changed our policy to cheapest ticket/airline, EXP may only last one year.
Since my work has just changed our policy to cheapest ticket/airline, EXP may only last one year.