status comp?
May 23, 2002 | 8:30 pm
#46
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 108
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by number_6:
AA has an undocumented feature that allows converting upgrade credits into miles. The normal use of upgrade credits is to upgrade US (domestic) AA flights (cannot be used to upgrade international AA flights), so non-US customers complained (they could never use these upgrade credits). AA improved the AAdvantage program to allow converting the credits to miles ... this effectively adds 100% miles. Thus paid F earns 150%+100%Platinum bonus+100% upgrade conversion, or 350% of flown miles. The other Oneworld plans (QF, BA, etc.) do not allow this conversion. Rumour has it that AA may also stop doing this, and has disallowed conversion of upgrade credits this year if any were ever used -- you can convert to miles only if never upgrading US flights.
As an unofficial feature of AAdvantage, it can change at any time without notice (as it doesn't exist, officially).
I agree that the QF plan has some drawbacks, but it also has some advantages. Enough that I am earning QF Platinum this year. But the analysis to reach that decision was difficult, and QF doesn't highlight some of the good features of the plan (for me the mileage thresholds happen to be favourable ... for other routes it would be unfavourable, and have a big effect).
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AA has an undocumented feature that allows converting upgrade credits into miles. The normal use of upgrade credits is to upgrade US (domestic) AA flights (cannot be used to upgrade international AA flights), so non-US customers complained (they could never use these upgrade credits). AA improved the AAdvantage program to allow converting the credits to miles ... this effectively adds 100% miles. Thus paid F earns 150%+100%Platinum bonus+100% upgrade conversion, or 350% of flown miles. The other Oneworld plans (QF, BA, etc.) do not allow this conversion. Rumour has it that AA may also stop doing this, and has disallowed conversion of upgrade credits this year if any were ever used -- you can convert to miles only if never upgrading US flights.
As an unofficial feature of AAdvantage, it can change at any time without notice (as it doesn't exist, officially).
I agree that the QF plan has some drawbacks, but it also has some advantages. Enough that I am earning QF Platinum this year. But the analysis to reach that decision was difficult, and QF doesn't highlight some of the good features of the plan (for me the mileage thresholds happen to be favourable ... for other routes it would be unfavourable, and have a big effect).
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