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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #100 on: May 10, 2011, 10:19:58 PM »
just curious what the pros thought on this.

do you think its wise to transfer 250k spg points into aa for lifetime gold. the truth is i dont fly alot now maybe once or twice a yr but then again im 25 and many more years ahead of me iy''h and to lock in lifetime gold sounds tempting.

what do you think?

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #101 on: May 10, 2011, 10:38:00 PM »
What does lifetime gold get you? Does it apply to AA metal only? Can it be status matched?

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #102 on: May 11, 2011, 12:57:06 AM »
So we have at least until 8/1 and possibly longer?
Why?  If they give us 2 months notice tomorrow it can be sooner.
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #103 on: May 11, 2011, 01:15:07 AM »
Why?  If they give us 2 months notice tomorrow it can be sooner.

At least we'll have two months notice... Anything besides for SPG transfer to AA at a reasonable (or semi-reasonable) rate?
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #104 on: May 11, 2011, 01:17:26 AM »
At least we'll have two months notice... Anything besides for SPG transfer to AA at a reasonable (or semi-reasonable) rate?
Diners. But good luck finding those...

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #105 on: May 11, 2011, 01:19:34 AM »
At least we'll have two months notice... Anything besides for SPG transfer to AA at a reasonable (or semi-reasonable) rate?
SPG won't transfer to AA with a name mismatch, so even those will be at a huge premium I'd imagine.

Diners. But good luck finding those...
Hard to come by, although I can confirm that they do transfer to anyone's AA account.
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #106 on: May 11, 2011, 01:47:39 AM »
SPG won't transfer to AA with a name mismatch, so even those will be at a huge premium I'd imagine.

Wouldn't an address change, 30 day wait, and then transfer work?

Hard to come by, although I can confirm that they do transfer to anyone's AA account.

But Diners are 1:1, right?

Any idea what a Diners point is worth compared to MR and SPG?
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #107 on: May 11, 2011, 01:51:42 AM »
Wouldn't an address change, 30 day wait, and then transfer work?
It might, it might not.  Either way big hassle for buyer=price premium.
But Diners are 1:1, right?

Any idea what a Diners point is worth compared to MR and SPG?
They are 1:1.  There was a 25% bonus last fall for AA transfers.

Very few people have a diners card, so there's not much of a market for them.
I do love their retention bonuses though!
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #108 on: May 11, 2011, 09:29:23 AM »
What does lifetime gold get you? Does it apply to AA metal only? Can it be status matched?

i get l4 swu's(international address) plus free bags plus better seating.
but is it worth to part with so many spg points for it?

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #109 on: May 11, 2011, 09:35:34 AM »
can we transfer SPG to an other SPG

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #110 on: May 11, 2011, 11:06:11 AM »
can we transfer SPG to an other SPG
Only with the same address and not to new accounts.
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #111 on: May 11, 2011, 02:17:25 PM »
Only with the same address and not to new accounts.
Any idea how long an account must be open for until being considered "old"?

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #112 on: May 11, 2011, 02:35:59 PM »
they claim it ahs to be 30 days but let me tell dont play games with spg!!!!!!!

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #113 on: May 24, 2011, 12:56:58 PM »
any updates of when theyre going to be making the changes?

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #114 on: July 11, 2011, 11:31:29 AM »
any updates of when theyre going to be making the changes?
any updates ?

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #115 on: July 11, 2011, 04:38:31 PM »
any updates ?

+1.

I have 700K aadvantage and the necessary 300K spg on hand to get to lifetime gold but I cant decide if I should go for it or not as the 700K aa are more than  enough considering that all I want them for is to use on elal and elal has only once had availability from jfk or ewr to tlv the 20+ times that i have checked (each time with flexible dates of 7 days =/- )

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #116 on: July 11, 2011, 05:51:10 PM »
Do you ever fly AA that the benefits (luggage, standby, bonus miles, etc) will help you?
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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #117 on: July 11, 2011, 06:22:41 PM »
+1.

I have 700K aadvantage and the necessary 300K spg on hand to get to lifetime gold but I cant decide if I should go for it or not as the 700K aa are more than  enough considering that all I want them for is to use on elal and elal has only once had availability from jfk or ewr to tlv the 20+ times that i have checked (each time with flexible dates of 7 days =/- )

Wow, availability is that bad to use AA miles on ElAl from NYC? From LAX I have never had that much trouble when getting tickets for myself or others (granted its not 100%, but it never really is with mileage redemptions)

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #118 on: July 11, 2011, 07:02:04 PM »
Do you ever fly AA that the benefits (luggage, standby, bonus miles, etc) will help you?

probably 10 times a year

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Re: AA million miler lifetime gold
« Reply #119 on: July 11, 2011, 10:39:11 PM »
probably 10 times a year
I would transfer the SPG to AA in that case. 
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