Any programs that count CC miles towards elite?
 

I spend a significant amount a year on my credit card (in excess of $200,000) because I run business expenses through it. Are there any mileage cards that count credit card dollars towards elite status?

On AA, all miles earned (irrespective of source) count towards lifetime status, with lifetime Gold occurring at 1 million miles and lifetime Platinum occurring at 2 million miles. Note, however, that most of the AA cards from Citibank have annual earning limits (though these are waived for elite customers).

Also note that the lifetime status on AA is for the life of the AAdvantage program.

Mike

And of course you can accrue points on the Starwood Amex and transfer them to AA miles, getting closer to lifetime AA Gold or Platinum, with a bonus 5K per 20K transferred.

I am sure there are other ways to get AA miles transferred from points from other CCs.

I believe the thread Elite Staus without Flying incorporates this topic.

dennis

DL does, kind of.

10K Medallion miles, which go toward status, if you charge 25K per yeard on their card.

US does the same thing...if you spend $25k on their Juniper MC or their B of A Visa, 10k of those 25k miles get counted toward elite status.

If you qualify for an AmEx Centurion card - one could with that level of spending if can go mostly on AmEx and one also has a good history with other AmEx cards - it comes with instant mid-tier elite on CO, DL and US (in the U.S.; varies by country). More in the AmEx forum or in the thread linked from post #4 above.

Actually, it's for the "life of the AAdvantage Gold/Plat Elite program." So if they wanted, they could rename their elite levels Ruby/Diamond instead of Gold/Plat and dump all their lifetime elites. I doubt they'd do that, though, since lifetime elite status costs them next to nothing and gives a lot of generally-wealthy travelers an incentive to fly AA over the competition.

Spirit Airlines gives elite status based on total points earned rather than just points from flying. They are running a promotion that if you get their CC, you automatically get elite status.
http://www.spiritair.com/welcome.aspx?pg=fsmemberguide

Wouldn't work that way. Someone would sue. Unless AA changed enough to convince a judge that it's a truly new program, not just a name change or some other trivial window dressing, they'd lose on "form versus substance."

There are enough whack-job judges (and corrupt ones) and idiot juries out there that it is impossible to make a blanket statement like this.

ANYTHING can happen in a courtroom.

The AZ Amex card gives status miles for euros spent on AZ tix. Depending on the card level, you get 2x or 3x miles, so if you spend €1000 for a ticket, you get 2,000 or 3,000 status miles.