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Originally Posted by thesilb

My "welcome to infinite elite status" letter is dated February 3, 1995. Does anyone know what he last year those on the grandfather program could actually get in was? Was it 1994? 1995? 1996? Somewhere in there I believe.

Did you get a new card this year? I'm wondering why they send them out.

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Originally Posted by freakflyer

Did you get a new card this year? I'm wondering why they send them out.

CO sends out new Infinite Plat cards when the design changes. The design changed this time around. Last year it was the addition of the SkyTeam logo.

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Originally Posted by Gold Member (Post #42)

Currently there are 6 Star Alliance member/pending member airlines with life membership in their FFP. Skyteam has 4 member airlines with life membership, and in OW only 2 (AA and QF).
I have been trying to summarize for analytical purposes the Life Membership rules of the airline FFPs.
http://forum.airwise.com/forum/showp...18&postcount=7

Dear Gold Member,

Please edit your post above to include the full link. You have cut and pasted a shortened link with an elipsis (" . . . ") in the middle that renders your link useless.

I enjoyed reading your list of the six Star Alliance members, and the three non-U.S. SkyTeam members, offering life elite status. :cool:

Thank you all for the informative information.

My March 2006 FFP lifetime membership summary will eventually be expanded to contain the additional information.

Gold Member

If I recall correctly, my qualifying years were 1991-95. The program was discontinued in 1994 but if you already had 3 years under your belt, you were allowed to finish up your 5 years to attain infinite..

Just one last note: I have done enough EQM;s to have qualified for top tier each year since then even if it were not for infinite status (for example, 109,000 EQM's in 05) so I do not beleive that earning status on a carrier makes you want to take your business elsewhere....quite the contrary. What is the sense of earning status if you do not stay around long enough to take advantage of it.

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Originally Posted by thesilb

I think this is implicit in your paragraph, but you might want to make it explicit. When the program was ended, CO grandfathered those people "in progress". So, I qualified with my fifth year in 1994. My "welcome to infinite elite status" letter is dated February 3, 1995. Does anyone know what he last year those on the grandfather program could actually get in was? Was it 1994? 1995? 1996? Somewhere in there I believe.

Lifetime FFP Membership

I have completed my first summary in a word document, which I had to zip to get to the website. Please download Lifetime FFP Terms March 2006 – Gold Member’s Guide and provide any comments if you may.

If you need winzip you may download it free at http://www.winzip.com/

Gold Member