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ILuvParis Mar 26, 2008 9:18 am
Originally Posted by tom911 (Post 9415566)
If you're looking for lifetime status, AA offers lifetime Gold at 1MM and lifetime Platinum at 2MM. The miles can come from any source (flying, credit card, promotions). UA also offers lifetime Premier Executive status at 1MM, but in their case it's actual UA flight miles, so much harder to attain than AA.
The nice thing about AA, at least for people who are not rabid fliers, is that you can get lifetime Gold on AA and there is no similar lifetime plateau on UA. As to it being easier on American to reach lifetime Platinum, it probably is for most people, but if you get almost all your miles from flying and seldom qualify for 100% bonuses because you don't fly that frequently, it's probably easier to qualify on UA.

Efrem Mar 26, 2008 1:44 pm
Originally Posted by ILuvParis (Post 9468118)
The nice thing about AA, at least for people who are not rabid fliers, is that you can get lifetime Gold on AA and there is no similar lifetime plateau on UA. As to it being easier on American to reach lifetime Platinum, it probably is for most people, but if you get almost all your miles from flying and seldom qualify for 100% bonuses because you don't fly that frequently, it's probably easier to qualify on UA.
If you "seldom qualify for 100% bonuses" on those airlines, you average at most 40,000 or so miles per year. At that rate it would take a quarter-century to qualify on UA if, as also posited, "you get almost all your miles from flying." Granted, that's less than the 40 years it would take on AA (with the 25% first-tier mileage bonus counting toward the higher figure of 2MM there), but to most people those are both far longer planning horizons than they want to work with.

ILuvParis Mar 26, 2008 3:48 pm
Originally Posted by Efrem (Post 9469720)
If you "seldom qualify for 100% bonuses" on those airlines, you average at most 40,000 or so miles per year. At that rate it would take a quarter-century to qualify on UA if, as also posited, "you get almost all your miles from flying." Granted, that's less than the 40 years it would take on AA (with the 25% first-tier mileage bonus counting toward the higher figure of 2MM there), but to most people those are both far longer planning horizons than they want to work with.
Thanks for doing the math, which I was unwilling to do, but I was pretty sure that 1 million miles of flying is quite a bit less than 2 million miles of flying. :)

PlatinumScum Mar 26, 2008 3:52 pm
Originally Posted by dewelwood (Post 9415353)
I have been flying alot for the last five years and was wondering if it is worth staying with Delta or moving to another airline. I generally fly 150,000 to 250,000 qualifing miles with Delta and about 30,000-90,000 qualifing miles on Northwest (flights that doesn't share miles with delta). I live in Cinicinnati and that is the reason I started with Delta and never really flew anyone else. What is your opinion of American vs. Delta or United vs. Delta?
Your problem with AA is going to be the fact that they only fly regional jets to CVG, and unlike UA, American Eagle's regional jets don't have any F seats.

wharvey Jul 4, 2008 5:56 am
Originally Posted by JustTalking (Post 9460856)
AA doesn't status match.
I can say for a fact that this statement is not true.

My United 1K status was matched last year by American Airlines.

William

ILuvParis Jul 4, 2008 8:20 am
Originally Posted by wharvey (Post 9981433)
I can say for a fact that this statement is not true.

My United 1K status was matched last year by American Airlines.

William
AA gave you Executive Platinum?


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