SJWarrior

For me I had to switch hubs to ATL. So I flew a lot of DL and WN. After the first of the year I go back to MIA and I’ll want AA And Gold don’t get you much.

no1cub17

Yeah especially road warrior types with low tier status. I think GLD status benefits us slightly because we fly off-peak and not the road warrior pattern many of you do. We rarely miss upgrades out of OKC. So overall sadly still worth it, I think. Or maybe that just makes me an even bigger sucker, IDK. Especially knowing that we kinda went out of our way to requal for GLD, yet HP just gives out PLT to randos willy-nilly.

enpremiere

As well as as opinions relative to what AA truly cares about

GoPhils

Well that's better than me, I'm gold this year and need 6.5 more segments to requalify, but my offer was only $565 or 56,500 miles.

Grail

I am over on EQD and about 2,000 EQM away from EXP. I received the same $1,495 or 149.5K offer.

billgrates3

One year I was 85K EQM and $8K EQD, and had just become PPro, when the next day I got a buyup for $2500, which I paid for. Used the 4 SWUs for SFO-LAX-AKL, so good value I thought. Of course, EXP is worth it for the other benefits too.

This year I am already PPro but will reach 91K + 11K EQD (after another trip to NZ next month), so I'm curious if I'll get a buyup offer.


BTW - I had to use BE BXP3s to upgrade for this year's trip to NZ, already confirmed on outbound 2-Dec.

Gringa

Which makes how they figure what to ask for these statuses even more perplexing.

Reetmafreen

I got the same offer as you as a current PPRO but I only have $7500 EQD, though I have 71K EQM. I have a TATL flight in J in Dec that will realize 11K EQM and 1.6K EQD, so I’ll make it on my own.

I thought a $300 premium to get there without any additional flights wasn’t too bad.

TravelinSperry

So I got an offer for Gold the day before I was to fly and achieve Gold. Now my offer page shows nothing available. Will I get another potential offer for Platinum this year? Or is that it?

ryan182

I don't doubt you on that, but I do question the logic of those who do pay for it outside perhaps a situation where one finds themselves in an off year where they are a bit short and are certain that the following year will be a heavy travel year where they can capture value from the status and are likely to earn status w/o paying for it, and even then with a lot of the changes the past couple years (not just at AA but in general) I'm not sure it makes sense in any circumstance.

As a current EXP, sitting at 102K EQMs and only 11.4EQDs due to a lot of BA flights where the EQD ratio didn't work out in my favor (getting 20% EQDs on a 4K ticket sucks, but not worth paying an extra 2-3K to get the AA code) plus and on top of that I ended up flying a bunch of DL F and Mint flights due to no longer being willing to take a connection due to loyalty to an airline (^ thanks to all the airlines for making domestic F fares much more reasonable).

This year I have a JL J flight and a BA F flight in the next month that will get me over the 15K EQDs so doesn't really matter but for lolz checked my offer and it does seem they are pegging it mostly to the EQD shortfall as I was quoted $3,714 or 371.5K miles which is $133 more than my shortfall of EQDs for EXP. Given my BA flight is a quick weekend trip to have dinner at an amazing restaurant in London and the JAL flight for my dive trip this year I'm quite happy to take these flights, but if it was a case of having to take an MR to earn the EQDs vs paying an extra $133 to not have to bother I could see how one might consider the buyup offer to not have to deal with a MR. A few years ago if I was in such a situation I'd probably give some consideration and even tilt towards yes if I thought I would fly enough to earn EXP in the following year organically, but today I don't think I would consider it at all. I ended up getting 4 domestic upgrades this year as the difference between Y and F was often not worth the gamble and I just paid the difference, I did use 2 SWUs and will likely end up donating the other 2 to co-workers or FT when that thread comes around next month as Intl-J has become really reasonable of late when booked in advance (and sometimes even not in advance), the limited F cabins on AA and my travel being heavily to EU
(on BA) I just can't use them. Honestly if I lost EXP the things I'd really miss the most would be the First Wing at LHR and OW F lounges in HKG/LHR...on my AA flights I don't think it would make a difference to me.

sambagrrl07

Current Platinum at 64K EQM / 7K EQD. My offer is $2,245 / 265K miles for PPRO. But I have travel in early December that will get me there. No thanks.

onfo

I’m PP currently with $19,000+ EQD, and 42,000 EQM. was offered to buy up to Plat for $1345/133.5K. Kind of ridiculous given my spend YTD...

no1cub17

That's astonishing - at $1000 per 2000 miles, you're AA's most profitable passenger! Perhaps this is what UA is thinking.

onfo

Haha, it’s really mostly a couple of last minute TATL flights.

MSPeconomist

So should the person be charged at the same rate, which would be $4,000 for those missing 8,000 EQMs?