The great points transfer to AAdvantage

[NM]

Congratulations

The eVIPs that you earn will be valid for 1 year regardless . If you wait till december, they will be valid till december 2009

but if he puts the flights off until January or later, they go towards earning more EVIPs that will then be valid for 2010. Sounds like Paul already has EXP in the bag for 2009.

 

[paul4471]

Dave I don't believe this is correct.

I posted on the FT AA board regarding this issue and the advice there is that the EVIp's you earn upon reaching EXP are valid till Feb of the year+1 following the year earned. So the 8 X EVIp's I earned in Jul 2008 when I crossed the EXP threshold are valid till Feb 2010. This is definitely correct.

What I was interested in was the validity of the EVIP's earned for crossing the 1MM threshold. The advice that was received is that they are also valid till Feb of the year+1 following the year they were earned. Hence if I wait till Jan 09 to earn them, they will be valid till Feb 2011. In a similar way that if I requalified EXP for 2009 in Jan 2009 they would be valid till Feb 2011.

I'm pretty confident on this but YMMV.

Will be a moot point soon as the EVIp's are going to appear on the AAdvantage page when you login and I assume they will also show the expiry dates. Rumour is that this will be ready to go in Jan 09. They've already added the tab for it but link goes nowhere.

Cheers, Paul

 

[futaris]

Will be a moot point soon as the EVIp's are going to appear on the AAdvantage page when you login and I assume they will also show the expiry dates. Rumour is that this will be ready to go in Jan 09. They've already added the tab for it but link goes nowhere

Do you mean 'View My Upgrades' or some other tab?

 

[paul4471]

Do you mean 'View My Upgrades' or some other tab?

Correct - since 500 mile upgrades were already viewable (originally on the main page) the inside running is that the EVIp's are going to appear on this page as well.

 

[NM]

I posted on the FT AA board regarding this issue and the advice there is that the EVIp's you earn upon reaching EXP are valid till Feb of the year+1 following the year earned. So the 8 X EVIp's I earned in Jul 2008 when I crossed the EXP threshold are valid till Feb 2010. This is definitely correct.

What I was interested in was the validity of the EVIP's earned for crossing the 1MM threshold. The advice that was received is that they are also valid till Feb of the year+1 following the year they were earned. Hence if I wait till Jan 09 to earn them, they will be valid till Feb 2011. In a similar way that if I requalified EXP for 2009 in Jan 2009 they would be valid till Feb 2011.

I'm pretty confident on this but YMMV.

That is also my understanding.

 

[QF WP]

Slowly slogging my miles from Amex, Hilton double dipping and Hertz to AA:

Program to Date Miles      557,025
YTD Elite Qualifying Points      0
YTD Elite Qualifying Miles       0
YTD Elite Qualifying Segments    0
Miles with Expiration Deferred Through Jan. 21, 2012   347,025

 

[drron]

Now Lindsay get a move on.Great to see this thread come back.Like Paul4471 this thread was the inspiration for my switch to AA.I note that in 2008 I said i should be at 700,000 by year's end.Well i have had a wriggle on and if DC give me what they owe should be over 1.5MM by year's end.once again,Thanks Lindsay.

 

[QF WP]

drron, who would have thought I would inspire so many away from QF

 

[JohnK]

drron, who would have thought I would inspire so many away from QF

And the irony is that you are back to QF.

 

[serfty]

And the irony is that you are back to QF.

Once has to deal with the cards they are dealt.

I'm WP, lifetime SG but still retain WP and put my additional travel to *A as it works best for me IMHO.

As it is I am .18 of the way to AA Lifetime Gold ...

 

[JohnK]

As it is I am .18 of the way to AA Lifetime Gold ...

Perhaps I am missing the bigger picture but what does AA Lifetime Gold give you over QF Lifetime Gold?

 

[samh004]

Perhaps I am missing the bigger picture but what does AA Lifetime Gold give you over QF Lifetime Gold?

Security should QF fail somewhere down the track.

Seems more likely it’d happen the other way round though

 

[serfty]

Perhaps I am missing the bigger picture but what does AA Lifetime Gold give you over QF Lifetime Gold?

If I'm in coach on an AA flight and booked into a non QFF earning booking class (e.g. Q), as an AA Gold I would still be able to put my AA number into the booking and get premium seat allocation (including exit rows) as well as "Priority AAccess".

 

[PaulC83]

If I'm in coach on an AA flight and booked into a non QFF earning booking class (e.g. Q), as an AA Gold I would still be able to put my AA number into the booking and get premium seat allocation (including exit rows) as well as "Priority AAccess".

And I suppose that pretty much sums it up, like all program selection it depends on your personal requirements, AA status ain't going to help me because I have only been to the states once, but in your case it is useful due to your travel requirements. The usual thing, YMMV

 

[NM]

Well I will be crediting my first flights to my QF account in about 4 or 5 years. But only because the E class Red-e-Deal was so cheap that I could not justify using either QFF points or AA miles to buy the tickets. So 2000 more QFF points will be entering mine and Mrs NM's QFF accounts.

 

[samh004]

Well I will be crediting my first flights to my QF account in about 4 or 5 years. But only because the E class Red-e-Deal was so cheap that I could not justify using either QFF points or AA miles to buy the tickets. So 2000 more QFF points will be entering mine and Mrs NM's QFF accounts.

I didn’t realise you could book a ticket 4 or 5 years out! :shock:

 

[Dave Noble]

And I suppose that pretty much sums it up, like all program selection it depends on your personal requirements, AA status ain't going to help me because I have only been to the states once, but in your case it is useful due to your travel requirements. The usual thing, YMMV

it works quite nicely if you travel on OW airlines and want to get redemptions at a good price. Status on AA would provide for similar benefits that the equivalent status on QF would give. e.g. AA Platinum would give lounge access and business class check in benefits when travelling on QF but redeeming a return trip from ASP-AKL via SYD ( for example ) would cost 35k miles in business class vs 100k miles using miles from a Qantas FF account

There is no need to be travelling to the states for there to be a benefit

 

[Jobu]

If you get or have negotiated price discounts with Qantas (e.g. corporate rebates), does it cost anything to credit the flight to AA? e.g. if you get 50% off in J class on a long haul flight, can you book with Q and call up and ask for the flight to be an AA number without a cost?

Cheers

JOBU

 

[Dave Noble]

If you get or have negotiated price discounts with Qantas (e.g. corporate rebates), does it cost anything to credit the flight to AA? e.g. if you get 50% off in J class on a long haul flight, can you book with Q and call up and ask for the flight to be an AA number without a cost?

Yup. As long as booked in a normal revenue class (e.g. J,C,D,I ) then you can happily credit to AA ; just because you have a discount with QF does not mean that you have to credit to QF

 

[Jobu]

Cheers Dave. Seriously considering switching over now, or when I hit LTG.

Is it much easier to qualify for Exec Plat if the flight has an AA flight number rather than a QF flight number? And will Qantas happily change the flight number to an AA flight number?

Thanks,

JOBU