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Sky Team
- AF/KL: Lifetime Platinum (ST E+) after 10 consecutive years of membership at the Platinum level
- DL: Lifetime Gold (ST E+), then Platinum (ST E+), then Diamond (ST E+) and finally DL 360 (ST E+) after 1M, 2M, 3M and 5MM respectively of Butt in Seat miles, i.e. from any ST flights. Any existing MM balance will be honored at 1:1 ratio
- KE: Morning Calm Premium (ST E+) @ 500,000 miles on any ST flights; Lifetime Million Miler (ST E+) after 1M miles on any ST flights; the SKYPASS program changes on 1 February 2024, so lifetime tiers are only achievable until then
- SK : Lifetime Gold (ST E+) after 10 consecutive years of membership at Gold or higher level
- VN: ST E+ after 1 million qualifying miles accumulated from taking VN-coded flights, operated by Vietnam Airlines since enrollment
- VS: Lifetime Gold after (1) earning 7500 tier points AND 10 years consecutive Gold status, or (2) fly 1 million revenue miles
- AC: on AC metal flights only (incl. AC Jazz and AC Rouge) -- lifetime 50K (Elite) (*G) after 1M miles; lifetime 75K after 2M miles; lifetime 100K (SuperElite) after 3M miles; Class of Service bonus counts towards lifetime status
- AV: Member must earn 1MM (Lifetime Gold, *G) via AV and affiliate metal, be 60 years of age AND be a LifeMiles or previous program member for 15 years. 2MM gives Lifetime Diamond. Program is called CENIT
- CA: Lifetime Platinum (*G) after 1M km on CA-coded and CA-operated flights only, or 1M km on ZH-coded and ZH-operated flights only, or 2M km across CA group of airlines (CA, ZH, SC, KY, NX)
- LH: Lifetime FTL (*S) after 30,000 QP (qualifying points). Lifetime Senator (*G) after 40,000 QP.
- MS: Lifetime Platinum (*G) after 1M miles on MS flights and all *A flights (but this is now grandfathered as of 20/01/2020, it is no longer possible to achieve LT Platinum after that date)
- NH: 500k (NH Metal) - , 1MM (NH Metal) - (1)No mileage expiration, (2)Superflyers Card, 2MM/3MM (NH Metal) - (3)F Suite lounge access on NH Metal and (1) and (2)
- OZ: Lifetime Diamond Plus (*G) after 500,000 miles on *A flights/ 500 OZ flights. Lifetime Platinum after 1M *A flights/ 1k OZ flights
- SA: Lifetime Platinum (*G) after 6 consecutive years of membership at the Platinum level or alternatively: 720 000 SAA Tier Miles** during a minimum of 4 consecutive years and to a maximum of 6 consecutive years on Platinum status by earning at least 120 000 SAA Tier Miles in each year
- TP: Lifetime Gold (*G) and Lifetime Navigator (*G) status at 2M and 3M miles earned from TAP flights counted from 1998.
- UA: Lifetime Gold (*G), Platinum (*G), 1K (*G), GS (*G) after 1M, 2M, 3M, 4M respectively of Butt in Seat miles, but only flown on UA/UAX metal (no longer CM). 1MM regardless if holding higher status may only share Premier Gold with a companion. 2MMs and up may share their higher status (if earned) with one companion as of 2027. "Daisy chaining" is no longer permitted, previously any Million Miler who also earned a higher status was able to share it with another MM who then could pass it on to an additional person. If a MM chooses to share their status with someone, the MM cannot inherit status from another.
- AA: Lifetime Gold (OW Ruby), Platinum (OW Sapphire) after 1M, 2M miles. Lifetime Platinum Pro (OW Emerald) at 4M and Executive Platinum (OW Emerald) at 5M. (BiS only; used to be all miles earned before Dec 2011)
- AS: 1MM earns lifetime MVP Gold (OW Sapphire) and Gold 75K (OW Emerald) at 2MM. AS metal only. MM's receive complimentary meals in Main Cabin as well as an annual boost of 20 000 Elite Qualifying miles. MMs may share their current status (if higher than their MM tier) with one companion.
- AY: Lifetime Gold (OW Sapphire) 2M tier points; Lifetime Platinum (OW Emerald) after 3.3M tier points
- BA: Lifetime Gold (OW Emerald) at 550,000 tier points; Lifetime GGL at 1 500,000 tier points as of April 1st 2025. Before, 35,000 tier points for GfL and 100,000 for GGLfL. Current LT tier points balance will be converted based on your percentage from reaching a lifetime tier. E.g. 17 500 is 50% of GfL which will be converted to 275,000 under the new system.
- IB: Lifetime Infinita (OW Emerald) 400,000 Elite Points since you signed up to the Iberia Plus programme; Infinita Prime (OW Emerald) 640,000 Elite Points as of as of April 1st 2025. Before, 125,000 tier points for Infinita and 200,000 for Infinita Prime. Historical LT tier points balance will be converted based on your percentage from reaching a lifetime tier. E.g. 160 000 is 80% of Infinita Prime which will be converted to 512 000 under the new system.
- QF: Lifetime Silver (OW Ruby) after 7,000 status credits: Lifetime Gold (OW Sapphire) after 14,000 status credits; Lifetime Platinum (OW Emerald) after 75,000 status credits
- JL: Lifetime OW Sapphire with JAL Global Club Three Star or higher (1500 Life Status Points)
- LA: 15 years or more of Black or Black Signature status since the year 2000 grants Lifetime Black (2nd highest tier in program) and 20 years or more of Platinum or higher membership since 2000 will get you Lifetime Platinum (mid tier status)
- LY: The Matmid Frequent Flyer Club awards lifelong Gold membership to members aged 67 and over, they held Gold, Platinum or Top Platinum membership through consecutive 10 years.
- PR: Mabuhay Miles Million Miler membership is earned by those who collect 1,000,000 tier miles
- VA: To qualify for Forever Gold, your balance (calculated from 1 February 2013 onwards) must reach a total of 12,000 Status Credits, with a minimum of 9,000 Status Credits earned on eligible Virgin Australia marketed flights, flown by you
Lifetime status by airline -- attempted summary
Jul 23, 2017 | 8:29 am
#76
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: ZQN
Posts: 3,238
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.
A number of hotel chains allow award nights to count towards status.
Perhaps the weakest aspect for NH LT membership is that there will be no LT status(Gold/Platinum/Diamond) even if you achieve the milestones. I checked that with their customer service. It's just that you can get LT miles on award tickets, which, however, help you to get something back on NH :/
Jul 24, 2017 | 2:23 am
#77
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Netherlands
Programs: KL Platinum; LH Senator; A3 Silver
Posts: 30,623
Sep 1, 2017 | 11:07 pm
#78
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Saipan, MP 96950 USA (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands = the CNMI)
Programs: UA Silver, Hilton Silver. Life: UA .60 MM, United & Admirals Clubs (spousal), Marriott Platinum
Posts: 18,052
[ S]peaking 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.
My wife and I have lifetime United Club membership (originally CO Presidents Club), so that would be a good combination for us.
Oct 19, 2017 | 5:40 am
#79
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bonn
Programs: QR Silver, A3 Silver, (former: AB Platinum)
Posts: 32
Oneworld: IB offers lifetime as well:
Infinita (OW Emerald)
https://www.iberia.com/gb/en/iberiaplus/infinita/
To get this card you need to have obtained 125.000 Elite Points since you signed up to the Iberia Plus programme. Once you get it, this card will be for life.
Infinita Prime (OW Emerald)
https://www.iberia.com/gb/en/iberiaplus/infinita-prime/
To get this card you need to have obtained 200,000 Elite Points since you signed up to the Iberia Plus programme. Once you get it, this card will be for life.
Infinita (OW Emerald)
https://www.iberia.com/gb/en/iberiaplus/infinita/
To get this card you need to have obtained 125.000 Elite Points since you signed up to the Iberia Plus programme. Once you get it, this card will be for life.
Infinita Prime (OW Emerald)
https://www.iberia.com/gb/en/iberiaplus/infinita-prime/
To get this card you need to have obtained 200,000 Elite Points since you signed up to the Iberia Plus programme. Once you get it, this card will be for life.
Mar 7, 2019 | 5:51 pm
#84
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Programs: DL, OZ, AC, AS, AA, BA, Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, IHG
Posts: 21,005
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.
A number of hotel chains allow award nights to count towards status.
Mar 7, 2019 | 6:00 pm
#85
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 22,933
[off topic]
Make a dummy cash booking. Some where will be an option to pay with cash & avois
https://www.britishairways.com/en-it...s/part-payment
OP's other thread on status earning with BA--->https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...flying-cx.html
[on topic]
https://www.britishairways.com/en-it...s/part-payment
OP's other thread on status earning with BA--->https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...flying-cx.html
[on topic]
Mar 11, 2019 | 1:23 pm
#86
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: BNE
Posts: 43
Is OZ regarded as the best play for someone wanting to work incrementally towards lifetime status (no travel for work) so just leisure travel (with the occasional cheap business ticket)
The perks of having two years to attain and then keep *A G are the main wo things I've factored in
Thanks!
The perks of having two years to attain and then keep *A G are the main wo things I've factored in
Thanks!
Oct 31, 2019 | 2:51 am
#87
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 29
Hi regarding MS, Egypt Air Plus, is the part of requirement to fly MS metal, actually something like NHs programme when you get benefits for life on NH metal but not necessarily *G status ?
lifted this from their website
When your account reaches a total of 1,000,000 flown miles earned from flights onboard EGYPTAIR flights,
or Star Alliance Members Carriers the membership level will be upgraded to the platinum level.
- An extra 40% of the miles entitled for every flight (operated by EGYPTAIR flights)
- Meet & Assist service at Cairo Airport.
- Extra miles on special occasion.
- Unlimited mileage validity.
- Platinum for life.
- MS: Lifetime Platinum (*G) after 1M miles on MS flights (or all *A flights ??)
lifted this from their website
When your account reaches a total of 1,000,000 flown miles earned from flights onboard EGYPTAIR flights,
or Star Alliance Members Carriers the membership level will be upgraded to the platinum level.
Additional benefits for EGYPTAIR Plus Members on EGYPTAIR flights only
- An extra 40% of the miles entitled for every flight (operated by EGYPTAIR flights)
- Meet & Assist service at Cairo Airport.
- Extra miles on special occasion.
- Unlimited mileage validity.
- Platinum for life.
Dec 1, 2019 | 9:36 am
#88
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Saipan, MP 96950 USA (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands = the CNMI)
Programs: UA Silver, Hilton Silver. Life: UA .60 MM, United & Admirals Clubs (spousal), Marriott Platinum
Posts: 18,052
[ S]peaking 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.
Feb 27, 2020 | 6:41 pm
#89
Join Date: May 2015
Location: ATL/MCO
Programs: Costco Gold Star, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red
Posts: 5,987
Adding Avianca and Alaska. Putting AS under Oneworld as they are to join the alliance in 2021
AV: Member must earn 1MM (Lifetime Gold, *G) via AV and affiliate metal, be 60 years of age AND be a LifeMiles or previous program member for 15 years. 2MM gives Lifetime Diamond. Program is called CENIT
AS: 1MM earns lifetime MVP Gold and Gold 75K at 2MM. AS metal only
AV: Member must earn 1MM (Lifetime Gold, *G) via AV and affiliate metal, be 60 years of age AND be a LifeMiles or previous program member for 15 years. 2MM gives Lifetime Diamond. Program is called CENIT
AS: 1MM earns lifetime MVP Gold and Gold 75K at 2MM. AS metal only
Feb 28, 2020 | 2:59 pm
#90
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 22,933
Adding Avianca and Alaska. Putting AS under Oneworld as they are to join the alliance in 2021
AV: Member must earn 1MM (Lifetime Gold, *G) via AV and affiliate metal, be 60 years of age AND be a LifeMiles or previous program member for 15 years. 2MM gives Lifetime Diamond. Program is called CENIT
AS: 1MM earns lifetime MVP Gold and Gold 75K at 2MM. AS metal only
AV: Member must earn 1MM (Lifetime Gold, *G) via AV and affiliate metal, be 60 years of age AND be a LifeMiles or previous program member for 15 years. 2MM gives Lifetime Diamond. Program is called CENIT
AS: 1MM earns lifetime MVP Gold and Gold 75K at 2MM. AS metal only