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Buy Elite Status on other airlines?
Can you buy elite status on other airlines besides United?
I have heard that if you are already Platinum on AA, but are going to expire, you can maintain Plat status by paying $395 -$495 (depending on your mileage balance). This will give you one more year of status. And I believe you could keep doing this. Is their something similar on other airlines? |
20 Points per Dollar Spent
You can buy gift certificates from Spa Certificates in increments of $75 each, that earn 20 points each. $5,000 would be about 50 spa/massage visits, at about $100 a pop each, If you and wife go to a spa 10 times a year, this would last about 2.5 years.
Good deal if you go for massages regularly. Earning 100,000 points would earn you 4 free domestic flights, many upgrades and a few free flights next year. With 100% bonus match, if you fly 50,000 miles you'll get 50,000 more free miles. (2 more free domestics) The value of 6 free flights is probably between $1,500 - $2,000. Not to mention, you can get upgrades for a companion and can nominate one person to Silver Status. |
Why has FTD been deleted from US AIR WEBSITE!!!!!
Originally Posted by alanh
US Airways is currently running a promotion where miles earned with certain retail partners earn status miles. FTD offers 20 miles/$1, so you could buy top level (Chairman Preferred) for $5000 of flowers.
you can't get this offer from the USA airways shopping mail partners. only from FTD website direct. I am not concerned about FTD (actually US AIR) honoring the 20 miles per $ . what I am concerned is that the 20 miles pwe dollar will be regular miles. not EQM's. quite a difference! |
can transfer from starwood count???
what about transfers from Hilton??? these are partners??? Have any other carriers "matched" this promotion???? |
only AA counts credit card/other transfers/etc toward status. there are ways of earning status points/miles other ways, but not having 100% count like AA.
well, technically spirit does too. but their program isnt really comparable to other programs. cashback can not come anywhere near the maximum value of credit cards that give you points/milles. |
Originally Posted by Kagehitokiri
only AA counts credit card/other transfers/etc toward status. there are ways of earning status points/miles other ways, but not having 100% count like AA...
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Originally Posted by writetorich
can transfer from starwood count???
what about transfers from Hilton??? these are partners??? Have any other carriers "matched" this promotion???? |
Originally Posted by popcorn6
You can buy gift certificates from Spa Certificates in increments of $75 each, that earn 20 points each. $5,000 would be about 50 spa/massage visits, at about $100 a pop each, If you and wife go to a spa 10 times a year, this would last about 2.5 years.
Good deal if you go for massages regularly. Earning 100,000 points would earn you 4 free domestic flights, many upgrades and a few free flights next year. With 100% bonus match, if you fly 50,000 miles you'll get 50,000 more free miles. (2 more free domestics) The value of 6 free flights is probably between $1,500 - $2,000. Not to mention, you can get upgrades for a companion and can nominate one person to Silver Status. |
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Apparently the Spa Certificates are accepted all over the country and do not expire (per FTD CS agent).
That actually makes for an intruiging way to BUY CP and get 100,000 miles. These would make great gifts over the next couple years. I may be rethinking my switch to Delta for 2007. |
I agree. With no expiration date, these are fantastic birthday/holiday/corporate gifts.
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Sound like an easy way to get some miles. Thanks
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Originally Posted by pinniped
Plus, at the risk of flogging an already-dead horse, SPG Amex gives you more flexibility and a higher yield than typical mileage cards.
Best case: you use some or most of your points on hotel stays. It's relatively easy, even for a modest midscale guest at Sheratons and the like, to justify Starpoints as 3 cents apiece in real cash return. If you are already spending a lot of money on higher-end hotels, the returns can be even higher. Worst case: you can't find enough need for hotel stays, and you convert them to air miles at at least the same rate ($1 - 1 mile) as you'd get with the airlines' own cards. And although I wouldn't advise burning large chunks of Starpoints on miles, if you have to do it in 20k increments, you get 1.25 miles/$. You have many airlines to choose from. The only major "catch" that might affect some is that UA is not on the list of 1:1 carriers. (I think UA is 2 SPG to 1 mile, an absolutely horrific conversion rate.) But...as long as you aren't married to UA, that's not a showstopper. Sounds like you're talking AA. They are on the list of 1:1 carriers. |
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Originally Posted by thegeneral
The airlines aren't going to let you buy status. It's something they give to people who fly with them. By letting you buy status, they'd be giving you priviledges that you could afford to pay for yourself. The whole concept of status is simply a way for them to force you to do whatever you can to only/mostly fly with them.
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No one has mentioned the possibility of being "gifted" with 3P or 2P MileagePlus status on UA. And sometimes the "gifting" amounts to "buying" (actually "bartering") that status.
And if one maxes the benefits of the UA Platinum Visa card so as to get all of the 15K of EQM, there is the opportunity to buy more EQM for "Choices," though doing it that way makes them very expensive. |
I just found out that if you charge 30K per year on SPG Amex you will be upgraded to SPG Gold Status.
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Spa certificates points have been posted
I just had 100,000 points posted to my USAirways account. I am now Chairman status, highest level offered, without flying a single flight.
I bought $5,000 worth of certificates and earned 20 Points per dollar. This works out well for me, because I can use these in my business. Pretty incredible promotion!! |
Originally Posted by popcorn6
I just had 100,000 points posted to my USAirways account. I am now Chairman status, highest level offered, without flying a single flight.
I bought $5,000 worth of certificates and earned 20 Points per dollar. This works out well for me, because I can use these in my business. Pretty incredible promotion!! Unfortunately, I couldn't just say order 10 certs and send it to my address as it wanted me to enter in recipient information for each :( . So I manually :rolleyes: added 10 certs in. Then, I went to check out and then found out that FTD.COM wanted to charge me 10.99 delivery for each item. :mad: How did you get around this stupid interface??? :confused: ... and did you have to pay 10.99 for each cert you bought? |
Originally Posted by corporate666
And if I had lifetime gold, do I only need to earn the difference between gold and platinum to get platinum, or do I need to earn the whole lot? I mean, gold is 25k miles, platinum is 50k miles. If I get lifetime gold, an I also get 25k qualifying miles, do I get platinum or do I need to earn 50k even though I am already gold?
. trust me I know, I am a lifetime gold. IMO, it's a disincententive to fly AA. I want to maintain my bottom level tier on Sky Team. AA I can take for granted. What are you looking to do, what is more important to you? 1-"lifetime" vested status? 2-Immediate status on AA hopefully renewable each year 3- Are you very partial to AA? howabout CO,DL, US would these work? 4- what is your home airport? typical trip, flying patterns? 5-How many trips and Flight miles and segments a year? if you respond to this, I'll try to be of more help. welcome to FT. |
Originally Posted by alanh
US Airways is currently running a promotion where miles earned with certain retail partners earn status miles. FTD offers 20 miles/$1, so you could buy top level (Chairman Preferred) for $5000 of flowers.
Nah its a scam. They want $14 shipping on each and every $75 cert. They won't sell larger denominations. So a bulk order ordered at once shipped to the same addresss would have $1000 shipping. I called on this. a real turn off. I guess its a tax on the miles, |
$5025 + $938
certainly affects the miles per dollar.. wonder why no one mentioned it before.. |
popcorn6, did you have to pay all these shipping fees with your certificates?
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Originally Posted by bamalawdawg
Apparently the Spa Certificates are accepted all over the country and do not expire (per FTD CS agent).
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