380Flyer

I have five lifetime memberships now and I am freaking proud of them:- British Airways Lifetime Gold, Qantas Lifetime Gold, Marriott Lifetime Platinum, World of Hyatt Lifetime Globalist, Starwood Lifetime Platinum.

I am not stopping there, I am over 68% of my way to Lifetime with Asiana Airlines for Star Alliance Gold and Hilton Diamond.

teledude

What do you do?!

380Flyer

Professional sales

msm2000uk

Of airline loyalty schemes?

Very impressive tally of Lifetime programs...although I dare say potentially detrimental in other areas of one's life.

M

380Flyer

hfly

A few points to make:

1) Always shoot to complete the one that is attainable in the mid-term future, not long term, you never know when your circumstances change.
2) Always better to spread your eggs around. It seems that you are very Oneworld heavy. Speaking as someone who has only four lifetime statuses, rather than your five, but three of them are with airlines, I can say that having three Golds, or Plats (or whatever the top regular status is with a certain airline) is generally better than having super status on only one or only one alliance.
3) At some point, it just becomes anti-climactic. I'm of the cusp of perhaps one more lifetime program, and possibly, if another program does institute a million miler status, which I have been assured that they will in the next year or two, I'd qualify for that. Otherwise, I'm done chasing these things, as the thought of spending another 1,000 nights (or whatever) in another hotel program, or going from zero to a million or two in a new airline program at this point just seems silly. For many years I prided myself in being able to keep top tier status in six airline programs and 2-3 hotel programs, as I let a few go, you know what? It really hasn't effected me at all........

matrixwalker2012