What Counts As A Once/Lifetime Status Match?
Dec 5, 2007 | 3:59 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Tha OC
Programs: Outgrew all status except AA: Plat for life (the program's); Costco: Ex Plat
Posts: 682
What Counts As A Once/Lifetime Status Match?
Does a completed challenge count?
How about if an airline that once comped you gets absorbed by another (AmWest and USAir)?
How about if an airline that once comped you gets absorbed by another (AmWest and USAir)?
Dec 5, 2007 | 6:24 pm
#2
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 23,999
Really depends on the carrier. I know with AA you can do a challenge more than once, but just not two years in a row as a form of requalifying. I believe UA's "challenge" (which give status in advance) are once in a lifetime. I think with absorbed carriers it really depends on the specific circumstance, and don't think there's a general rule.
Dec 5, 2007 | 8:21 pm
#4
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AA does this where you have to earn a certain number of points in a certain amount of time to get status for a whole year, basically as a form of "fast track." In this case, if you earn 10K Q-points on AA within 90 days you earn Play, or for 5K Q-points you get Gold. Hope that makes sense.
Dec 10, 2007 | 1:19 pm
#6
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SFO
Posts: 451
Do a Plat challenge on AA in year 1. AA would only drop you to Gold in year 2.
Do another Plat challenge in year3, and ...
Dec 11, 2007 | 5:17 pm
#7
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: UA MM | BA Gold
Posts: 7,299
In 2003 I asked United if they could move my status up early as since I had already booked far beyond the next elite threshold. I think this was GM -> 2P
I was told no over the phone and then the next day my account was upgraded. I still wonder to his day if this counted as my one time comp even though it was not a status match.
I was told no over the phone and then the next day my account was upgraded. I still wonder to his day if this counted as my one time comp even though it was not a status match.