May 13, 2019, 12:21 pm
Last edit by: rasheed
Site to link accounts: https://www.aa.com/aadvantage-progra.../partner/hyatt
Terms: https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...conditions.jsp
Terms: https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...conditions.jsp
AA & Hyatt announce partnership 2019
May 14, 2019, 12:01 am
#46
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,381
Here's what my email offered:
Has anyone received the actual AA promotion yet? If so please post the terms & conditions. They don't say how long the promotional status is valid for. On the blogs, people are speculating 90 days like a normal AA challenge which would make sense.
Has anyone received the actual AA promotion yet? If so please post the terms & conditions. They don't say how long the promotional status is valid for. On the blogs, people are speculating 90 days like a normal AA challenge which would make sense.
Take your World of Hyatt Explorist status to the next level and enjoy free AAdvantage® Gold status for 3 months after you register.
Keep your AAdvantage® Gold status through January 31, 2021 by earning the required Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) and either the required Elite Qualifying Miles (EQMs) or Elite Qualifying Segments (EQSs) between the date you register and the date 3 months after you register:
Qualifying EQDs, EQMs and EQSs to extend status are earned when you fly on eligible tickets for flights operated by American Airlines or marketed by American, American Eagle®, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia and Japan Airlines.
Keep your AAdvantage® Gold status through January 31, 2021 by earning the required Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) and either the required Elite Qualifying Miles (EQMs) or Elite Qualifying Segments (EQSs) between the date you register and the date 3 months after you register:
- $1,000 EQDs and either 7,000 EQMs or 8 EQSs
Qualifying EQDs, EQMs and EQSs to extend status are earned when you fly on eligible tickets for flights operated by American Airlines or marketed by American, American Eagle®, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia and Japan Airlines.
Out of SEA and my travel patterns don't work well with going to AA hubs (tbh WN works better than AA if I am going for a non-SEA airline or free agency) and this isn't going to come close to tipping the balance.
Last edited by eponymous_coward; May 14, 2019 at 12:08 am
May 14, 2019, 8:15 am
#47
Join Date: Apr 2009
Programs: American EXP; British Airways Gold
Posts: 1,896
May 14, 2019, 4:50 pm
#48
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,905
Here's what my email offered:
Has anyone received the actual AA promotion yet? If so please post the terms & conditions. They don't say how long the promotional status is valid for. On the blogs, people are speculating 90 days like a normal AA challenge which would make sense.
Has anyone received the actual AA promotion yet? If so please post the terms & conditions. They don't say how long the promotional status is valid for. On the blogs, people are speculating 90 days like a normal AA challenge which would make sense.
1. Already Have
2. Cannot Lose
I am hoping that they somehow backdoor further AA fast tracks to go higher on the AA food chain the the one-off cross comparisons they''ve done across the 2 award chart Tier levels. Otherwise, this promo is absolutely meaningless Status-wise.
May 14, 2019, 4:55 pm
#49
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Miami, Florida
Programs: AA ExPlat, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Spire, Hilton Gold
Posts: 4,009
If you fly at a AA Gold level (or less), how much value does one year of a higher status really have? There's no point to these programs if they end up being one-year giveaways for people who can't or won't maintain that status.
May 15, 2019, 5:23 am
#50
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: WAS/NYC/LON
Programs: AA EXP, HH DIA, Hyatt DIA
Posts: 286
Just had my first Hyatt points post for an AA flight (quite quick!)
- Flight was on 5/13
- Both AA and Hyatt flight credit posted on 5/15
- Received one Hyatt point per EQD
- Within the Hyatt activity tab, it shows flight number, orig/dest, and qualifying spend $, so pretty clear where the points are coming from
May 15, 2019, 8:51 am
#51
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,381
Presumably the intent is to capture some business on the margins and get people who can switch some business over to AA. You don't need everyone to maintain status, you just need to fill more planes and have some people retain status.
May 15, 2019, 9:24 am
#52
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: YVR
Programs: AA
Posts: 871
I’m an explorist with hyatt and no status on aa. When i linked i got the gold offer for 3 months with a challenge to maintain. I have 2 upcoming trips on AA. I will register for the promo just before my first flight to max the 3 months. But will these already booked flights count towards the challenge?
May 15, 2019, 10:14 am
#54
Join Date: Apr 2004
Programs: AA Plat/2MM, DL Silver, UA Silver (via Marr), Marr LTT, HH Gold (via cc), Hyatt Disc
Posts: 1,039
May 15, 2019, 10:23 am
#55
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DL: Silver; AA: EX PLAT; UA: Silver; HY: DIA; HH: DIA; MR: TIT
Posts: 1,708
I’m an explorist with hyatt and no status on aa. When i linked i got the gold offer for 3 months with a challenge to maintain. I have 2 upcoming trips on AA. I will register for the promo just before my first flight to max the 3 months. But will these already booked flights count towards the challenge?
Yes!!! Per the T&C:
- Travel completed before registration doesn’t count toward this challenge
- Eligible tickets include purchased, published fares flown between the date you register and the date 3 months after you register
May 15, 2019, 11:02 am
#56
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: YVR
Programs: AA
Posts: 871
thanks for that. But i may be interpreting it incorrectly as needing to be purchased within the 3 months. Hope i’m wrong.
May 15, 2019, 12:37 pm
#57
Join Date: Jun 2018
Programs: AA PPro
Posts: 632
I am having the same issue, I contacted Hyatt to make sure they updated my name to be the same as AAdvantage before I went to link them. Do you have a suffix by chance? I think the issue is Hyatt is using a separate suffix field and I have my suffix in my last name field with AA because of a ticketing issue I had which they said doing so would resolve.
*edit* Hyatt made the name change so both are now identical and I am still getting the same error message from AA...
*edit again* I ended up going around this multiple times with Hyatt and AA changing names, finally removing the suffix from my last name on AA made it work. Who knows why, but the AAdvantage agent I talked to on the phone made it sound like people with suffixes were having a lot of problems signing up for this program.
*edit* Hyatt made the name change so both are now identical and I am still getting the same error message from AA...
*edit again* I ended up going around this multiple times with Hyatt and AA changing names, finally removing the suffix from my last name on AA made it work. Who knows why, but the AAdvantage agent I talked to on the phone made it sound like people with suffixes were having a lot of problems signing up for this program.
Last edited by HiAperture; May 24, 2019 at 2:49 pm
May 15, 2019, 4:16 pm
#59
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: WAS/NYC/LON
Programs: AA EXP, HH DIA, Hyatt DIA
Posts: 286
As an AA Gold? I would say pretty low except for some weekend / red-eye possibilities. I would say that is the equivalent of getting upgraded to a suite as a Discoverist ... not likely, but possible!
May 15, 2019, 4:18 pm
#60
Join Date: Oct 2007
Programs: AA, WN, UA, Bonvoy, Hertz
Posts: 2,491
Uh, not good. I am sure there exist certain flight times where there are less elites, but usually they are gone after CKs/EXPs and maybe some PPROs are upgraded.
