USAIR Levels
 

US does have a 1,000,000 lifetime program, and here are the details.

1) Only miles flown on US metal, partner travel does not count.
2) Only the actual flight miles count
3) Credit card miles and bonus miles do not count

That is how they count.

Here are the terms

Lifetime status has a expiration date if you do not do any business with them in 18 months it expires before your expiration date. For this you get Lifetime Silver Status, this is US lowest status level.
One of the hardest programs to get into, with the lowest status granted.
BTW, I have this status x2.

Assuming one was starting from scratch and not on the former citi aadvatange gravy train.

Prime example being my father: Long time citi aadvantage holder. A kayak traveler that rarely flies AA except on award tickets. Has about 850k lifetime miles simply from the credit card. Im trying to convince him that GLD is better than nothing and to fly AA more.

I think your list is an oversimplication. AA has several MM tiers, just as UA has many MM tiers and extra benefits.

For example, at 1MM UA, you get minimum Lifetime Premier Executive (STAR GOLD) + Spouse/Partner matching status (matched up to current year status - e.g. if you are 1MM but also Premier 1K that year, then your spouse also gets 1K that year, and 1P minimum after that if you dont requalify - make sense?) This is actually HUGE.

Subsequently at 2MM UA, you get Lifetime Platinum + Spouse match, at 3MM UA you get lifetime 1K + spouse match, and at 4MM UA you get Lifetime Global Services + Spouse match.

Don't forget the spouse match on UA Lifetime program - this is actually quite huge.

Is that points? or miles?

Indeed, however this is only useful if you:
(a) have a spouse; and
(b) said spouse travels

It depends where relative to the next goal you got on the former Citi AAdvantage gravy train. Someone who just crossed 1MM in the nick of time is as far away from Lifetime Plat as someone starting from scratch is to Lifetime Gold.

Furthermore, someone who already have Lifetime Gold has no "incentive" to fly just enough to attain Gold. Their pursuit of elite qualifying whatevers only matters if they can make it up to Platinum.

Of course, if they're flying (paid) enough to just make it up to Platinum each year, and without using DEQM promos, then it'll "only" take them 20 years of that to get to Lifetime Plat from Lifetime Gold (that was achieved in the nick of time the old way).

Points.

and (c) said spouse doesn't travel enough to earn status on his/her own

I can see it already: Green card spouses are out, lifetime status matching spouses are in! (And I presume UA is not quite as inquisitive about you proving your marriage is "real" as the USA immigration people are!) :D :D :D

SAS offers a "secrete" EuroBonus Gold *Gold life time status level, much like LH one has to be over 60 years old AND have had EBG status for the last 10 consecutive years.

Excellent resource, thank you. I am replying to "bookmark" this thread.

Question, am I correct to assume that

'* QF: Lifetime Gold after 14,000 status credits '

Is for for flights only coded QF or on all A* flights??

OP, DL gives SkyTeam Elite + to Gold Medallions, and you get "complimentary annual GM" as a 2MM on Delta. So you don't need 4MM.

Had over 1000000 US BIS Miles years ago and got nada. One of many reasons I dumped them as soon as I could.

Nice that "Lifetime Staus has an expiration date". :rolleyes:

Cheers

Thanks for this list. Was looking for something similar to it.