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?

Well, Finnair lifetime status is based on number of tier points earned not number of miles flown. So if you spent extraordinary amounts of money on Finnair marketed Finnair metal flights then you would accrue based on what you paid.

On that note I should say that BA is also in the running here, given that they do tier points based on spend as well, with lifetime status based in tier not distance.

Other than JL are there any options for general cobranded credit card spend (not spend on the airline)? And at what star level does JL provide lifetime ow diamond?

There’s a Qantas lifetime platinum/owe now but the qualification is pretty wild, 75000 SC ie 5xLTG

BA lifetime requirements have obvs changed with the new club

I would consider AA to effectively have "lifetime" status via spend.. You just need to charge enough on the credit card each year.
JL 6 star is JMB diamond.

what is enough for the AA option per year for diamond?

There is no AA diamond.
Better off asking the AA forum if you have questions about their status.

sorry I meant Emerald not diamond. Stupid names tbh 😂

To qualify for AAdvantage Platinum Pro (oneworld Emerald) based solely on annual credit card spend, a U.S.-based member has essentially three options:

1. Spend $105,000 (annually) on the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite Mastercard® (annual fee $595)
2. Spend $110,000 (annually) on the AAdvantage® Aviator® World Elite Silver Mastercard® (annual fee $199. Not open to new applicants; I'm unclear whether you can still product change)
3. Spend $125,000 (annually) on any other U.S.-based cards (annual fee starting at $0 for the American Airlines AAdvantage® MileUp® Card)

The above represent consumer-focused cards and not business cards.