Hello,

Just curious if there is an app or program that can show my continued progress towards elite status (with any airline really but I am currently aiming for AA). I know i can check on AA but im thinking of something that tracks future flights too

I use Awardwallet.

I also use AwardWallet. I just updated the 71 accounts I store there.

But I'm not aware that it will track progress towards elite status - it just tracks your mileage balance, current status, and other account data. And while it keeps a list of future travel, it doesn't do anything proactive with miles.

I assume you're looking for something that will tell you "You currently have Gold Status, have earned 45,827 miles toward the 50,000 milestone for Platinum status and currently have 3 trips planned that will earn 6,387 miles, putting you over the Platinum status threshold". I'm not aware of anything that will do that other than the individual programs' websites.

I rolled my own (web-based), and I thought about releasing it as a service people could use, but the inability for me to determine EQD on a per-segment basis makes it so I continuously have to go back and edit EQD after it posts. I don't mind doing that for my own tracker, but it isn't something I'd push onto a user. I've spent many hours trying to figure out how the EQD breakdown per segment works, and AA says it's "based on Tariffs in effect for the ticket," but thus far, I can't find any logic behind it in any published material about a fare.

It does a really good job of keeping track of EQM, EQD, EQS, RDM, and even has a spot for me to enter credit card spend and customer service gestures, redemptions, etc. It automatically determines EQM/EQD from AA credit cards too. It can automatically calculate sticker earnings, and it even does its own great circle calculations for mileage (or uses proven AA-specific distances for routes I've already traveled in case they're different).

Some day I'll crack the code and let some people try it out.

As an aside, if anyone can shed any light whatsoever on the breakdown of EQD on a per-segment basis, I'm all ears.

Pretty sure this requires AwardWallet plus, but if you hover over the + symbol next to the account, it will pop up with a window that tracks historical point balances, current status, current elite status, next elite status, and miles/flights/nights towards elite status. It doesn't support this for every loyalty program, however.

I just use milecalc.com (to get distances from the Great Circle Map), excel, and the AA app. has worked well for almost 10 years.

Award Wallet offers me nothing close to what the AA app does when it comes to tracking current status. As for future travel, hire an actuary if the math is too difficult.

I took pieces of that and built my own - the AA model now is really quite complex, but I am lucky as I usually fly the same routes.

My spreadsheet tracks what i have done and what i have booked and what I think I will do further out. It also shows which entries have actually shown up in the AA system - and syncs them. Its a real pain to keep it going fro year to year, but it is very helpful in working out whether I have to a trip in PE or whether Y is enough.

After getting shafted on AA earning for a RTW ticket, I spent over an hour on the phone with AA Customer Service about earning EQD on complex tickets. They informed me that there is now a calculator they have access to that will give the earning for each segment prior to flying, but you would have to call AA CS to get that answer. There is of course the projected earning on AA.com prior to purchasing, but it doesn't work if there is any non-AA coded segments.

The trip confirmation screen also doesn't show it per segment... Only the whole trip. Basically AAdvantage customer service told me to call Reservations for an "estimate" of the EQD when I inquired about this. I've taken a sampling of my own trips, even identical ones, to try to reverse-engineer this, but no dice. It may be a pedantic thing, but if the EQD posts per-segment, I want to see the breakdown per-segment in my tracker.

Thank you very much. I had not discovered milecalc.com before.

To answer OP, I just roll my own XLS and update it whenever I book a flight and then after miles post.

I wish I would have started this at the beginning of last year, nothing like flying 148K miles and then declining a trip because I thought I had enough miles only to find they did not post from a one world partner.

During the booking process on the trip review page you see the Advantage Earning Summary,





from there you can click the Show Advantage Earning link and then the Flight Details link and you will see the miles and EQD by segment. Here's an example.

I've also used https://cwsi.net/calc/aa/ in the past, though it's more or less the same as milecalc.com.

As this question is not specific to American Airlines nor the AAdvantage program, we will move this over to the Travel Tools forum for further discussion. Thanks.

/JY1024, AAdvantage Co-Moderator