Lifetime Oneworld Status
 

I was interested in looking at oneworld lifetime status, not that I could ever achieve any of them as it is a struggle for me to even achieve annual status. I thought the list might be of use to someone else who is a more frequent oneworld flyer.

I managed to find the following:-

Ruby
American Airlines - 1,000,000 Million Miler Miles
Qantas - 7000 Status Credits

Sapphire
American Airlines - 2,000,000 Million Miler Miles
Qantas - 14,000 Status Credits
Finnair - 3,000,000 Tier Points

Emerald
Finnair - 5,000,000 Tier Points
British Airways - 35,000 Tier Points
Iberia - 125,000 Elite Points

Does anyone know of any others that I might have missed?

Not aware of any others.

Until a few years ago the AA status could be gain by credit card spending (now just flying miles), and QF had its Marginal Any Seat Awards which allowed points spend to earn SCs.

Achieving JL sapphire even once allows you to sign up as part of Jal Global Club, which basically gives you OW Sapphire status for as long as you keep that membership alive, so a quasi lifetime status. For people inside Japan this means signing up for JL credit card and paying the annual due, while for people overseas they'll just deduct a few thousand miles p.a from your JMB mileage balance. That's how we got so many OW S members in Japan!

If I'm reading the website right, I just need to earn JMB Sapphire then apply for JGC which requires 5k miles to be deducted from the JMB Account. Every year I would just need to credit at least 5k miles into the JMB account for the JGC membership renewal. This retains my JGC membership which has Oneworld Sapphire status.

Will tryout the JGC program for next year's flights.

This is part of the reason some people are crediting their AA flights to JL now I'm guessing (that and OW has some really lackluster partner programs for crediting your AA balance...). I'm still debating whether I want to go this route or switch my OW loyalty to CX.

Edit: It looks like half of your qualifying points need to be flown on JAL itself, not partners? Could be a limiting factor depending on who you fly.
"Must have accrued at least 50,000 FLY ON Points (including 25,000 FLY ON Points for JAL Group flights) or have attained at least 50 flights (including 25 JAL Group flights) and 15,000 FLY ON Points during the preceding calendar year from January to December." JGC Enrollment Qualifications

That is correct, you'll need JL Group Flights as well and may not be feasible for some.

That's based on current rules only. Note that rules do change over time and not that long ago simply renewing JGC won't give you oneworld Sapphire.

i got it mostly on a done3 last year due to double flyon point on kix lax。i still need to fly more jal on domestic to get 25000 jal flyon points.

Strange there is not one airline offering lifetime status across all three tiers...as a QF flyer I have hit the ceiling in terms of what is available (no Emerald tier status with QF)

What would be the benefit of limetime Ruby? AY has life time sapphire and emerald (although very difficult to achieve).

I guess the only advantage is business class check-in and preferred seating.

Life time Gold (OW Ruby) with AA at the moment allows one "free" checked in baggage item on AA flights. One can also hope that treatment during "irregular operations" would be (slightly) better than a no status person.

Happy wandering

Fred

Has anyone done a recent comparison for OW lifetime status across the different carriers, including any clever ways of crediting flights where the carrier and FFP are different?

So for instance a BA flyer crediting to AY to make use of the fact that even though both carriers now have a spend-based model (mileage runs no longer that attractive)... crediting this way will be calculated according to distance flown and booking class tier points multiplier.

Any FFPs that stand out in terms of faster qualification?

The fastest lifetime status are the programs that allow spend to count towards lifetime, not limited to only distance traveled. That would be JAL (LSP via credit card) and Finnair.

However, if you are passively qualifying for status every year (ie, AA credit card spending) then that is effectively "lifetime" status.

Thank you! Does Finnair indeed offer a spend-based way to attain a higher tier?