I recently retained my gold status with the American Airlines by earning 32,545 EQM's and spending $3750 EQD's. As I retained my gold status from last year, I thought I would continue further with those EQM's and EQD's which I earned for this year 2020 so that I can get to the Platinum status. But to my surprise, the progress bar has been reset to zero. So, in order to get to Platinum, I need to travel 50000 EQM's + spend $6000 EQD's instead of the difference from the last year. Is that right? Is that how the program works? If that's right all the Exec Platinum members are spending $15,000 + flying 100000 EQM's every year to retain their status? 🤯
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Note that if you fly on short notice and business class, then $15000 can be as few as two flights.– Jörg W MittagCommented Jan 13, 2020 at 1:53
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1But, that’s not gonna give me 100,000 miles though ;)– ShellZeroCommented Jan 13, 2020 at 1:55
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Yes, the AA page on elite status says:
Earn EQMs, EQSs and EQDs during the calendar year to qualify
(bold mine)
Most frequent flyer programs are the same -- you have to fly a lot of miles during the year, every year. Air Canada's top tier requires 100k status miles. Some airlines have a lifetime award if you pass a million or more status miles, but that is independent of the year by year qualification.
answered Jan 12, 2020 at 13:58
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1Dayummm... Thanks for clarifying it. I overlooked it! Seems like I will never reach Executive Platinum for at least a few more years where I can dedicate myself to that kind of traveling! :( Commented Jan 12, 2020 at 14:01
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Delta also rolls over excess elite qualification miles (not elite qualification segments or dollars) to the next year. If OP earned those EQDs/EQMs on Delta, they'd start the year with 2,545 EQMs and 0 EQDs. Commented May 21, 2021 at 14:05
If that's right all the Exec Platinum members are spending $15,000 + flying 100000 EQM's every year to retain their status?
Yes.
The clocks resets on Jan 1 every year and you need to start accumulating from scratch every year. You maintain the top status you reached in 2019 for all of 2020, but the accrual starts at 0 on 1/1/2020. There are no carryovers.
