American Airlines AAdvantage has a new promotion out there for members of LinkedIn to receive a Fast Track for AAdvantage Executive Platinum, Platinum and Gold status.
This promotion is supposedly targeted to certain LinkedIn members who should have received this offer per email, you should check yours if you are a member of that networking website.
While (just like with any American Airline promo) pretty anyone can register for it, there is no guarantee that this promotion will work for you if you were not targeted.
You can find the American AAdvantage website for this offer here.
The promotion also comes with another caveat, namely that those who are signing up do not hold any type of Elite status with AAdvantage as of September 14th 2015. This automatically disqualifies all those accounts who have lifetime Gold or Platinum status.
Here are the requirements for this Fast Track Offer based on Elite Qualifying Points (EQP):
Keep in mind that Elite Qualifying Points are measured on your fare class and are different from base miles collected. For flights on American Airlines the EQP range from 0.5 EQP per mile flown (lower fare classes) to 1.5 EQP (Full Fare, First & Business Class). You can access AA’s website for the full earning ratios here.
You will be able to collect promotion eligible EQP on: American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Qantas, US Airways and some codeshare flights (I would be careful with those codeshares though).
Conclusion
This is a solid and generous offer from American Airlines especially since it comes without the usual match requirement of holding a comparable elite status with a competing airline. The points requirement is reasonable as well considering you have three months to complete this challenge. Executive Platinum Members automatically receive 8 complimentary systemwide upgrades for use on AA which makes this deal extra sweet.
I can just assume based on the T&C your status will be adjusted in stages as soon as you reach the individual hurdles but this might take a few days. If you are not targeted for this promotion or don’t feel confident about signing up, American always offers the regular Platinum Challenge for 10,000 EQP within 90 days for a nominal fee of 200 US$. For this you have to call up AAdvantage customer service.
Here are the Terms & Conditions of this promotion at the time of this article:
This is an exclusive offer only for select AAdvantage members who receive this message from LinkedIn and who do not hold AAdvantage Gold, Platinum or Executive Platinum status as of September 14, 2015. AAdvantage elite status members are not eligible for this offer.
Upon reaching the required AAdvantage elite-qualifying points threshold, your AAdvantage elite status membership benefits will take effect immediately and will be valid through February 28, 2017. Your new membership credentials will be mailed to you within four to six weeks after qualification. Qualification is based on AAdvantage elite-qualifying points earned on eligible, purchased, published fare tickets on select airlines between September 14 and December 23, 2015. Select each airline name to learn more about qualifying fares for that carrier: American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Qantas and US Airways. Bonus elite-qualifying points earned through other promotions do not count towards this offer. You must re-qualify for AAdvantage elite status membership annually. Learn more about standard qualification levels.
As a lifetime Platinum member who struggles to achieve Exec Plat each year (often with a mad dash end of year mileage run) this offer does not please me one bit. The addition of US air already created more competition for upgrades. Our rate of ability to use VIP upgrades for overseas flights had already plummeted. This will certainly make things harder for existing members. Bah humbug.
Understand, but I let status on AA drop years ago. With UA going downhill, willing to go back to AA.
No status… had a trip planned for Europe already. This is beyond helpful! Was able to register. Thank you!
Be warned: Unless you were actually targeted for the promotion you almost certainly won’t get status. American’s IT systems have long allowed everybody to register for promotions (even ones they’re not eligible for) and you even get a confirmation email – but they weed out everybody who wasnt targeted.
No skin off my back if i dont get status…my trip was long planned and paid for before I heard about this. I rarely fly anyway so I really have zero to lose. Thanks for the warning. 🙂
Hi, do you know if we can participate in this promotion if we purchased the ticket before the period? Because according to their site, it seems like we have to purchase it in the period:
Qualification is based on AAdvantage elite-qualifying points earned on eligible, purchased, published fare tickets on select airlines between September 14 and December 23, 2015.
Thanks!
Pink317 how could you Register, link is not working anymore?
Link is not working anymore… =/ I really want it!!!
The same here.
Always makes me wonder who gets targeted for this stuff. Thanks to the generous Air Berlin offer earlier this year I do have OW Sapphire until next summer but this AA offer for Exec Plat would have been appealing. I have flown AA a few times recently but I credit to BAEC so maybe I’m not even on AA’s radar anymore (as a mildly disgruntled UA Plat, I should be but not sure how they’d know that).
Back when UA was still CO I was targeted for nearly everything, even living in Asia. Now UA seems to leave Asia based Premiers out of the loop entirely, it pisses me off to no end, granted we are exempted from PQD but sucks losing out on nearly every single promo and opportunity.
Has anyone received a confirmation email yet!?
nope, not yet. Can you remember what the page said when that confirmation email is due?
I received one today as well as two family members that I signed up on it!!
Anyone received the confirmation email? As of Sept 16, no email for me. Deciding which flight to take for my upcoming Asia trip. Wouldn’t fly on AA unless this fast track offer is in effect.
Got my confirmation email today. A trip to Hong Kong this month in business will earn me 34,768 elite points, which should get me EP until Feb 2017. There’s a .5 point bonus right now, which puts the elite points earned to 2 per miles on my ticket. There’s also a double miles to Asia offer that I registered for. So there should be plenty of miles coming from this trip. From no status to EP will be quite a jump.
Thanks, got confirmation today.
Hi, do you know if I have to purchase the ticket in the time of the promotion, or can I only fly during the period?
need some advice : would crediting Cathay Pacific flight from Asia to Newark count as an “eligible codeshare” ?
If you are on AA code, yes.