CA is Air China and a Star Alliance member http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx
http://www.staralliance.com/en/member-airlines

Useful summary Overview of Frequent Flyer Programs by FLYGVA. Includes life time status, but may be up to date

AA offers Lifetime Gold at 1MM and Lifetime Platinum at 2MM. Miles can be earned as qualifying miles on any oneWorld carrier as well as selected partners. Note: it's flown miles only, there are no 500 mile minimums even for elites.

This is several years out of date. AA only includes BiS now.

As already noted, it's not from any source any more. That ended in December 2011. (Any Million Miler miles you earned from any source before December 2011 count, but from December 2011 onward only "butt-in-seat" miles count.)

There's Lifetime Gold after 1M Million Miler miles, and Lifetime Platinum after 2M Million Miler miles.

Yes, Platinum only gets you lounge access on days your flying internationally. But if you choose to get lifetime status on another OW airline, while flying AA, you have to give up lots of other perks (including upgrades) on AA for an extremely high number of flights to do so.

Meanwhile, who knows how this will work ten years from now. And anyone choosing today which airline to start collecting lifetime miles at is likely to need at least ten years to get to second-level-up lifetime.

So I don't see the point of pursuing lifetime status with another OW airline (if that's going to take anywhere around 1MM of flying AA) when you can buy domestic lounge access for just a few hundred dollars a year (or get it with a credit card that costs a few hundred dollars a year).

Executive Platinum is an AA status (which is not available in lifetime form). The status at Delta above Platinum is called Diamond.


There's lifetimes status at hotel chains too. If you're not going to cover those here, then I suggest you notify an operator to fix the thread title, as it's not clear from the current thread title that it's about alliance airlines only.

(No, not everyone might care about only alliance airlines. In the US specifically, some people might prefer to pursue lifetime status with Alaska if that's available.)

And be careful about all many-year-plans. Could you have predicted 10+ years ago that US would shift for *A to OW, and thus that any liftetime status there would shift from one alliance to another? That happened in South America too, when TAM shifted the same way when it was acquired by LAN. How do you some more of these (not founding) airlines of an alliance won't shift alliances in the next decade or two?

So i think it's much safer, if you're after a particular alliance, to pursue lifetime status with a founding member of that alliance rather than some second-tier member of the alliance.

And, btw, speaking of hotel chains, it's not necessarily unrelated to airlines: Marriott has a tie-in with United, whereby Marriott Platinum members can get complimentary United Silver status (but no higher level). As long as that continues, Marriott Lifetime Platinum is a backdoor way of effectively getting (maybe) lifetime United Silver.

And vice versa. Gold on United gets you Gold on Marriott.

And it is BD, not BM. :-:

Wiki created and some of the more egregious errors fixed. Feel free to update it rather than just posting comments here.

Updated the wiki on OZ

Finnair offers lifetime status too.

I didn't think LH lifetime senator was an official thing than was only based on this?
SK has a similar thing, lifetime gold after 10 years of EBG if aged above 60. Does not need to be consecutive. However it's being updated this summer.

KE 500k mile requirement for lifetime status, does that need to be achieved within 10 years? I can't see my wife achieving that within that time frame :/

Do you think it will disappear?
I couldn't find any information about it on their website.

https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/...els-table.html
I don't see anything on KE's website to indicate that limitation. The only listed parameter is miles flown.



On an unrelated note, it's worth noting that SA will grant Lifetime Platinum not only for 6 years of Platinum status, but also for 720,000 Tier Miles acquired over 4-6 consecutive years. At 6 years it balances out to qualifying for Plat normally, but if you can average 180,000 Tier Miles in four years you will get lifetime *A Gold that way. Not quite as good a deal as OZ, but still a solid option especially if you fly to Africa at all.

Update: SK dropped the 60+ years requirement. 10 years holding (not necessarily consecutive) Gold or Diamond status will grant lifetime SK EuroBonus (A*) Gold.

Shall we add NH in this master thread?
 

Just to provide some additional information, as NH launched the LT status a few years ago, which also included miles flown on award tickets, but you have to retroactively request it.

https://www.ana.co.jp/wws/us/e/asw_c...miler-program/

I wondered what other FFPs allow award tickets to be credited as LT miles.

Whilst not strictly award tickets, British Airways allows their award points (avios) to be used to discount the cash price of any normal revenue fare. Flights purchased in this way will count towards status.

A number of hotel chains allow award nights to count towards status.

Seems to be missing Air Canada:

1MM lifetime AC Elite 50k (*Gold)
2MM lifetime AC Elite 75k (*Gold) plus AC Elite 50k (*Gold) for a nominee
3MM lifetime AC SuperElite 100k (*Gold)

Miles are status miles including CoS on AC only