I booked a flight tomorrow, out at 7 AM, home late in the day, just to make sure I maintained my status on American Airlines. I need to plan better in 2016.
Anyone else taking some end of the year flights just to maintain status?
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I don't have to fly for my job (thankfully), but I do travel a lot and will need two more stays at a Hilton-family hotel to maintain gold status.
I will maintain my gold status.
I will maintain my gold status.
Of course.
I'm not taking a flight from Chicago to Miami and back on the 28th.
My empty seat will be a belated Xmas gift for a middle-row-seat, coach passenger on American Airlines
I'm not taking a flight from Chicago to Miami and back on the 28th.
My empty seat will be a belated Xmas gift for a middle-row-seat, coach passenger on American Airlines
Nope. Since AA raised the segment qualification for ExP, I have been flying other airlines and driving more this year and thus will be a lowly Platinum.
1%??
We don't fly commercial, and on the rare occasion we do, it's definitely not AA. And even then we don't care about status, we just pay for the amenities.
That is why I am flying tomorrow. Need to reach executive platinum.
What are the benefits you don't want to lose?
Just curious. Used to travel a lot, but more driving than flying and now don't travel at all. Enjoyed that part of my career for the most part, but do not miss it
Just curious. Used to travel a lot, but more driving than flying and now don't travel at all. Enjoyed that part of my career for the most part, but do not miss it
#1 benefit: Unlimited, auto-requested complimentary upgrades on flights over 500 miles.
There are a lot of others, including complimentary same-day flight change, guaranteed availability, companion upgrade, 8 system wide upgrades (to use on very long flights when you want to be guaranteed an upgrade) and many more.
AA also takes care of executive platinum when there is a cancelled flight or missed connection. They automatically put you on the next available flight - no waiting in line at the service desk.
If you fly 120 segments a year (the # needed for executive platinum), they take care of you.
Damn companion pass I'm $5k short of $110k for the year. Had a big december but won't post until January 2nd. Have to play games now with Amex points to transfer over.
Look, I've flown the Delta Shuttle almost weekly at one point. That's no fun at all. The worst part of flying is not being in the air. It is the scramble to get through security, fight to get on the plane, and then nothing ever works smoothly with arrivals, getting off the plane, etc.
At any rate, why do I get the sense you don't fly much and are posting in a thread about frequent flying and airline statuses?
All my flights are domestic and mostly up and down the east coast. I have no choice but to play the segment game.
I used to do this all the time when I traveled a lot for work. I flew around 800K miles from 96-2003. I was lucky, and always had a trip the first week of December, and knew how many miles, segments I would need to reach the next level. My best, was one December, instead of having to book a trip the last week of December, I added a bunch of segments to my December trip, and reached my next level. Original trip was DSM to NYC, through Chicago. 4 segments for like $895.00. I booked my trip DSM-Ohare-Milwaukee-Ohare-LaGuardia returning LaGuardia-Ohare-Madison-Ohare-DSM, total cost was $495.00, and only cost me about 6 hours of time.
