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Old Feb 15, 2002 | 11:28 am
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UAPremierExec
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Ever had a negative balance?
Just wondering if United is the only one to allow this:


Membership level Premier Executive
Year-to-date Premier ® qualifying miles
5038
Original program balance
0
Current program balance
-2523

-Nate
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Old Feb 15, 2002 | 11:52 am
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Rudi
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Location: CH-3823 Wengen Switzerland
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Senators (StarGold) with LH's miles&more program officially are allowed to go negativ 160'000 miles.
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Old Feb 15, 2002 | 4:40 pm
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David Reed
 
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I have gone negative with American by around 10 to 15k miles when I needed an award right away (i.e., for travel the next day). I think they charge a fee, but it seemed reasonable at the time.
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Old Feb 15, 2002 | 6:19 pm
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flingo
 
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Location: LAX
Programs: AA Plat, Marriott Plat for Life, SPG Plat, United Silver, given up on Skypesos for good
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Negative with DC after transferring points and then cancelled some trips in the fall.

Also, was momentarily negative with BA when I got a rewardwhich was a couple of hundred more miles than I had. Agent put the miles in for free to zero me out.
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Old Feb 16, 2002 | 12:43 am
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Dudemon
 
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Programs: UA 1k, AA Plt, MR Lifetime Plat & Amb
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Last August I went -74,963 points with HH. It was a legit negative but I did promise to send back send back a 120,000 point award while they agreed to send the new one out right away.
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Old Feb 16, 2002 | 7:05 pm
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I was -120K or so on AA this past summer. It lasted a couple of days. They were moving 1mm+ over from TWA and I wanted to claim 2F to Europe so I was temporarily in the red. Apparantly moving over that many miles required some kind of special 'audit.'
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Old Feb 16, 2002 | 7:09 pm
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BillMorrow
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Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: CHS
Programs: UA Premier, AA Gold, AC 25K, Marriott LT Titanium, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Gold
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My wife went negative with HHonors 3 years ago due to an award mixup. It took me 2 years to straighten out. In the end, HH put a 80K bonus into our now joint account for their repepated screwups!
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Old Feb 17, 2002 | 12:16 am
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Snoopy
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Went negative (about 20'000) for a while with Swissair's Qualiflyer programme as a Travel Club member. That lasted about 6 months.
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