American Airlines has just released an excellent fast track offer for Gold, Platinum or Executive Platinum status that is open for all non-status AAdvantage members. If you are not member yet, you can just sign up for AAdvantage and register for this offer.
Edit 6PM EST: AA already discontinued the first sign up page. I now have new link up that is still working. Edit: 10PM EST: Seems that AA has now discontinued all the offers listed below.
You need to register for this offer by August 27, 2013, and then fly between September 1 and December 31, 2013, on American Airlines or select partners (American Eagle, American Connection carrier, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Qantas). American Airline codeshare flights on other partners should qualify under this offer as well.
6,000 miles gets you gold, 12,000 miles gets you Platinum and 30,000 miles gets you Executive Platinum status. If you make the Executive Platinum status under this offer, you should also receive the 8 eVips that you should use to upgrade long-haul flights from economy to business or from business to first class.
You can access American’s web page for this offer here and register for this promotion using promo code H3TLK, H3TLI, H3TFB, or H3TGM here.
Here’s more information about American Airlines elite status:
Conclusion
This is an excellent offer for those that don’t have any status with American Airlines. They (AA) have made quite a few targeted fast track offers this year, but this is the first one open to all.
You should certainly sign up for this offer and try to hit the 30,000 level if possible to get the system wide upgrades that are very valuable.
Here are the terms and conditions of this offer:
This is an exclusive offer only for non-elite status AAdvantage members. AAdvantage members with Gold, Platinum, and Executive Platinum elite status are not eligible for this offer. You must register by 11:59 p.m. CT on August 27, 2013, and prior to travel in order for your elite-qualifying miles to count toward this promotion.
**Eligible airlines include American Airlines, American Eagle®, American Connection® carrier, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Qantas flights, as well as eligible codeshare flights.
Elite-Status Offer Terms and Conditions
AAdvantage elite-status membership received through this offer is valid through February 28, 2015. Upon reaching the required elite-qualifying miles threshold, your AAdvantage elite status membership benefits will take effect immediately. Your new membership credentials will be mailed to you within four to six weeks after qualification. Applies to base miles earned on eligible, purchased, published fare tickets on select airlines for travel between September 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013. Select each airline name to learn more about qualifying fares for that carrier: American Airlines, American Eagle, American Connection carriers, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Qantas. Bonus miles do not count toward elite status qualification. You must re-qualify for AAdvantage elite-status membership annually. Learn more about the standard qualification levels.
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I’m truly not happy about this. Im currently Gold and it doesn’t look as if I will retain status for next year. This would have come in so handy. And I definitely would have gone for the Executive Platinum.
It is obvious that AA tries to attract business from other airlines. They have had many targeted fast track offers this year.
I still went ahead and signed up for this offer! And they accepted it and sent the confirmation email. Has anyone had luck signing up for other offers they aren’t eligible for and still benefit?
unfortunately you are not eligible, from my experience viewing all the blogs and threads.
Would this fast track work without any travel at all on AA? No requirement for four AA flights?
There is no AA requirement if you read the terms and conditions. Only activity on the listed airlines is eligible for this fast track offer.
So you only get upgraded from economy at the Exec Platinum level??? Seems like a rip off since other legacies give you eligibility regardless of Econ fare type at the lowest status
Not really. You earn 500 milers on Gold and Platinum level that you can use to upgrade your flights and you can purchase more of them. Your upgrade percentage would be very low if Silver on United or Delta that is comparable for AA’s Gold.
AA’s PLT is comparable for Delta’s and United’s Gold. You wouldn’t get many upgrades as UA/DL Gold either.
You can use AA’s Evips to upgrade ANY AA paid fare. United requires you to buy higher fares in order to play swu upgrade game internationally and. Delta requires you to buy even more expensive fares to upgrade.
I read it diff from AA’s site that you still had to purchase a full-fare economy ticket. As Delta Gold (previously silver) I was able to get upgraded regularly with LUT fares from WAS.
Complimentary Upgrades
All elite status AAdvantage members enjoy complimentary upgrades to the next class of service when traveling on an eligible Economy Class ticket on American Airlines or American Eagle within and between the U.S., Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caribbean and between the U.S. and Central America and between the U.S. and Central America, as follows:
AAdvantage Platinum® and AAdvantage Gold® members receive complimentary upgrades for themselves and one companion, provided both are traveling on a full-fare* Economy Class ticket.
You can use complimentary 500 milers that you earn based on the number of miles you fly as Gold or Platinum (unlimited for EXP’s) to upgrade domestic flights. If you would prefer upgrading more lights than you have 500 milers, you can always buy more of them.
The upgrades on FULL FARE economy tickets is entirely different program.
This promocode does not seem to work, I just tried. Something I m doing wrong???
Seems that AA already discontinued the first offer. I have updated the link that is still working.
I signed up via the first link a few hours ago, do you think this is still valid and they’ll honour it?
None of these offers were “targeted”. They just had banner/text ads on their AA wall etc. on these social network sites. There is no way for AA to find out who saw what, where and when.
It looks like the updated link is also not working
It seems that all the four codes don’t work 🙁
Gone….
Yes the offer is gone. I should have register as soon as I saw your facebook wall post. Shame. 🙁
These offers are not usually this short lived, but then this was almost overly generous.
UK here, so by the time I woke up the offer had already closed. Shame as I’m just about to book a UK>Australia flight, which will be around 25k miles in one trip alone.
Ouch! You could have almost received an EXP just on this one trip. I signed up my brother’s girlfriend that should get Gold status based on just the oneway from HEL to POS on AY/BA/AA.
I know, I was really disappointed when I saw that I’d missed this. I’m Prem Silver with United MP, most of my flying is inter-European so any chance to get decent points is always welcome. Might end up using StarAlliance to at least build my MP, though I don’t think I’ll do enough to get to Gold, that’s why this would have been just perfect 🙁
What a shame. Since it is so popular, do you think they might reopen it?
I think that they were surprised about the number of people signing up for these offers. I have no idea. They have had number of targeted offers that are fairly similar to this open one.
A bit confused.. The EQMs required for this.. are they the ones you get only 50% of on a “deep discount” economy fare?
This is based on EQM’s and not EQP’s. You always earn 100% EQM’s but only 50% EQP’s on lower fares.
I signed up in time with two codes (just in case!) and received email confirmation. I also saved/ copied saved page which had one promo code I registered for in time. I went to see today and do not see the elite qualifying at fast track offers above.this is first time I’m doing this. What should I do now? Being inexperienced frequent flyer in 2008I purchased twenty 500 mile upgrades thinking they were good for all! I still have them and would like to use them. Are they good with Gold Status for international travel or just for US? Sorry for all the questions! I can’t seem to understand wording onAA website. Thank you so much for this opportunity! I’ve wasted thousands on non-refundable AA flights throughout the years so would be nice to enjoy something of value for a change. Thank you for all your help.
Those 500 milers are only valid on domestic and some short-haul international routes that don’t have “real” business class. This offer should be valid for all that registered in time before the offers were withdrawn.
Just hit 34,000 eqm, but i am still platinum. I hope there isnt any glitch.
If you got in under the original offer, you are certainly good to go. It can take few days for the new status to reflect on the website.