Questions on keeping preferred status
Aug 12, 2011, 4:53 am
#1
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Questions on keeping preferred status
Hi folks,
These are probably very elementary questions but U.S. Air's website doesn't have explicit answers.
1. Once I reach 25,000 miles within a calendar year, I get Silver Preferred for the rest of that year and the next?
2. If in Calendar Year 2010 I travel 30,000 miles then in Calendar Year 2011 I fly another 25,000, do I get Gold Preferred or do I just maintain Silver Preferred for another year?
3. Once I achieve Gold (or and of the others), must I travel at least 50,000 miles each year to retain Gold Preferred?
4. How do the Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Chairman multipliers factor in with Preferred status?
I am sorry if these are n00b questions but I did search and was unable to find the answers. If these have been answered before then I wasn't using the right search terms, in which case: apologies.
Vielen dank!
These are probably very elementary questions but U.S. Air's website doesn't have explicit answers.
1. Once I reach 25,000 miles within a calendar year, I get Silver Preferred for the rest of that year and the next?
2. If in Calendar Year 2010 I travel 30,000 miles then in Calendar Year 2011 I fly another 25,000, do I get Gold Preferred or do I just maintain Silver Preferred for another year?
3. Once I achieve Gold (or and of the others), must I travel at least 50,000 miles each year to retain Gold Preferred?
4. How do the Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Chairman multipliers factor in with Preferred status?
I am sorry if these are n00b questions but I did search and was unable to find the answers. If these have been answered before then I wasn't using the right search terms, in which case: apologies.
Vielen dank!
Aug 12, 2011, 5:20 am
#2
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1). If you earned your 25,000 right now, you would be Silver through February 2013.
2). You would maintain Silver.
3). In order to maintain a specific level, you must travel the corresponding number of miles just as if you were earning for the first time... 25k (silver), 50k (gold), 75k (platinum), or 100k (chairmans) in the calendar year...or complete the appropriate number of segments.
4) Bonus miles do not count toward the miles you earn for status.
2). You would maintain Silver.
3). In order to maintain a specific level, you must travel the corresponding number of miles just as if you were earning for the first time... 25k (silver), 50k (gold), 75k (platinum), or 100k (chairmans) in the calendar year...or complete the appropriate number of segments.
4) Bonus miles do not count toward the miles you earn for status.
Last edited by bitburgr; Aug 12, 2011 at 9:03 am
Aug 12, 2011, 5:22 am
#3
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Your mileage earned resets to 0 each Jan 1. To be silver fir 5 years, you must fly 25k miles or more in each of those years; to be gold, fly 50k miles each year. And so forth. Chairmans/Platinum/etc tier bonuses are for bonus miles only and do not count toward status. On Jan 1, everyone has 0 PQM (Preferred qualifying miles) and a SP and a CP on the same flight will earn the same PQM as eachother. The CP gets more bonus miles, that's it.
Aug 12, 2011, 5:34 am
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Ah, thanks. This clears things up significantly.
Aug 12, 2011, 7:56 am
#5
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3). In order to maintain a specific level, you must travel the corresponding number of miles just as if you were earning for the first time... 25k (silver), 50k (gold), 75k (platinum), or 125k (chairmans) in the calendar year...or complete the appropriate number of segments.
Aug 12, 2011, 9:03 am
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Aug 12, 2011, 9:29 am
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Aug 12, 2011, 3:57 pm
#8
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: US Gold, SPG Gold
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Just out of curiosity, is there any sort of de facto policy on "soft landings" (as in, having missed a status qualification for a year, only dropping one level)? For instance, would a CP who only flies 30k drop to SP or stick somewhere in between?
I've heard that AA often only drops a person one status level as a courtesy...
I've heard that AA often only drops a person one status level as a courtesy...
Aug 12, 2011, 8:20 pm
#9
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Pittsburgh
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I had silver in 2009 & 2010 mostly because of a trip to India on United & Lufthansa in business class in March 2009. In 2010, I only flew 1 US roundtrip for around 2,000 miles and a roundtrip on Continental for around 3,000 miles. They kept my silver status for 2011 as a courtesy (unrequested)! It really didn't mean anything because I have not flown a paid trip this year on US and probably will not, my business travel has been cutback severely.