Buy Back Your Status
Mar 14, 08, 6:10 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: CT
Programs: UA Silver
Posts: 16
Buy Back Your Status
I didn't fly US Air that much last year so I didn't cry when I lost my preferred status .
I got this email today, found it interesting but I'm not biting.... curious if other airlines follow suit.
Hope the link isn't too long to copy/paste:
http://www.usairways.com/awa/content...00361_03122008
Melissa
I got this email today, found it interesting but I'm not biting.... curious if other airlines follow suit.
Hope the link isn't too long to copy/paste:
http://www.usairways.com/awa/content...00361_03122008
Melissa
Mar 14, 08, 7:04 am
#2
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A menace to everything in the sky. Yes. Even birds.
Programs: Eh+ Rapid Rolleyes
Posts: 14,518
If anyone buys CP for $10,000 please tell them I have an exclusive offer, just for them.
There's a bridge or two in Manhattan that needs an owner. And they'd be the perfect candidate.
There's a bridge or two in Manhattan that needs an owner. And they'd be the perfect candidate.
Mar 14, 08, 7:39 am
#3
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Charleston, SC
Programs: UA 1P, CO Plat, MR Plat, SPG Plat, US Dirt
Posts: 1,506
All the more reason to jump to another carrier.....just evidence of how a great DM program turns to crap.........
Mar 14, 08, 10:42 am
#4
Moderator: American AAdvantage & Marriott Bonvoy
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: PHX
Programs: American ExPlat; Marriott/SPG Lifetime Plat; Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 8,083
So basically, you would need to earn one elite qualifying mile somehow, then buy:
Wow. They even sell their highest tier. Why am I not surprised?
Silver for $1050
Gold -- (and therefore Star Alliance Gold) for $2500
Or, completely buy your way from one tier to the next (e.g. earn Silver, buy up to Gold -- earn Platinum, buy up to CP) for $1050.Gold -- (and therefore Star Alliance Gold) for $2500
Wow. They even sell their highest tier. Why am I not surprised?
Mar 14, 08, 11:08 am
#5
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A menace to everything in the sky. Yes. Even birds.
Programs: Eh+ Rapid Rolleyes
Posts: 14,518
I'm half tempted to call that number and ask how much for "Client 9 status". And then ask about the hourly rate.
For some reason I feel like they might actually name a price.
Mar 14, 08, 11:47 am
#6
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Charleston, SC
Programs: UA 1P, CO Plat, MR Plat, SPG Plat, US Dirt
Posts: 1,506
Roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 14, 08, 12:13 pm
#7
Moderator: Coupon Connection & S.P.A.M
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Louisville, KY
Programs: Destination Unknown, TSA Disparager Diamond (LTDD)
Posts: 57,929
Buy back status?
No, thank you!
No, thank you!
Mar 14, 08, 12:37 pm
#8
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Programs: DL Silver, UA Silver, Marriott Lifetime Silver, IHG Plat, Hilton Silver
Posts: 5,695
Perhaps there would be a special rate for you!
Mar 14, 08, 1:12 pm
#9
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Tempe, AZ
Programs: US PP, MR SE
Posts: 309
Apparently this is being offered to folks with no status as well. A friend who had 20K EQM last year received an email yesterday with a buy-up to Silver offer for $450.
Mar 14, 08, 1:12 pm
#10
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: ROA / CLT
Programs: AA Plat, Marriott Life Plat
Posts: 799
Still, this should make life a little easier for their customer service, to have an answer when when people call about being a little short on miles to earn status for the next year, and if there is any way to buy those last few miles. I doubt they really expect anyone to buy CP from zero, but now they have an answer if someone asks that too.
Mar 15, 08, 10:34 am
#11
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Live: HVN -- Work: The World
Programs: DL - exPlat (now Gold) ; AB - Gold ; TK - Gold; BMI - exGold; US - exChairman ; UA-ex1K; NW-exGold
Posts: 1,248
I left my US Status behind.....but I'm glad to know that for $5k I can have my Plat back
No thanks
No thanks
Mar 15, 08, 11:13 am
#12
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 509
Hrm. I wonder if i can sell my status back to them....
Mar 15, 08, 1:54 pm
#13
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: CLT
Programs: Choice Hotels/FFOCUS
Posts: 7,256
Mar 15, 08, 2:30 pm
#14
Join Date: Jan 2007
Programs: US Airways Chairmans Starwood Lifetime Platinum, Marriott Platinum/,Lifetime Silver Hertz Presidents
Posts: 338
Would gladly sell my CP status for 10K!!
Mar 15, 08, 2:38 pm
#15
In memoriam
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: HVN
Programs: United
Posts: 546
Did it.
Now I don't fly nearly as much as many on this board, and I fly on my own dime, nevertheless I qualified for SP in 2006. It might not seem like much, but I grew fond of priority boarding, an occasional upgrade, and just a tiny bit of recognition at my local airport.
So fond of it that when I was bounced back to the proletariat earlier this year I missed the (very) few perks. And when I learned that I could buy back my SP status for a little over $400, I called immediately to be reinstated. In the NY area, that's the price of a good meal, or a few tickets to the theatre or a sports event.
Frankly, I'm hoping this promotion fails, so there'll be more room for me up in FC.
So fond of it that when I was bounced back to the proletariat earlier this year I missed the (very) few perks. And when I learned that I could buy back my SP status for a little over $400, I called immediately to be reinstated. In the NY area, that's the price of a good meal, or a few tickets to the theatre or a sports event.
Frankly, I'm hoping this promotion fails, so there'll be more room for me up in FC.
