If it makes sense, flying only on Alaska will get you a 20 % discount on the elite
qualifying miles required for their low - tier MVP status (20,000 EQM vs. 25,000 EQM if you include partner flights) and their mid-tier MVP Gold status (40,000 EQM vs. 50,000 EQM if you include partner flights).
Not exact matches
Two of the main
qualifiers for becoming a CPO car are mileage and age; most CPO programs
require less than 80,000
miles on the odometer and a car that is at most six model years from new.
Gold status
requires 25,000 elite
qualifying miles (EQMs), Platinum
requires 50,000 EQMs, Platinum Pro
requires 75,000 EQMs, and Executive Platinum
requires 100,000 EQMs.
While many airlines
require you to fly segments to earn elite status
qualifying miles, with Delta you can earn Medallion Qualification
Miles when using the Platinum Delta SkyMiles ® Credit Card from American Express.
However, when you own a
qualifying Delta credit card, this limit is waived and you can earn elite status the good ol' fashioned way: by just reaching the
required number of
qualifying miles.
There are three elite membership tiers, MVP, MVP Gold and MVP Gold 75K, and the
miles and segments
required to
qualify for each varies depending on where you book your flights as illustrated in the table below: -
Ulisse Club and above: Rollovers — you can transfer the
qualifying miles that exceed the number of
miles required for status to the following year.
There are 4 types of Bonus
Miles that can boost your
miles balance quickly; they are not considered as
Qualifying Miles to reach the threshold
required to next membership level but they can be used to redeem an award:
Delta flyers would be hit particularly hard by this as, presumably, one of their two cards would be a Delta card (the personal and business version of the Delta Platinum card earn elite
qualifying miles and waive the minimum spend limits that Delta
requires for Elite status) so that would leave them with just one slot left for an American Express Credit Card.
On your next hotel stay, you can accumulate enough
miles for the trip of a lifetime or earn the 110,000 points
required to
qualify for the Southwest Companion Pass, which lets one person fly for free on Southwest with you for up to two years.
There do not seem to me to be any clear advantages to doing so, since the opportunity isn't scalable in order to actually achieve
Miles & More elite status, which
requires 35,000 elite -
qualifying miles.
Miles needed to
qualify for domestic flights remained the same, but international flights
require huge increases in
miles.
On your next hotel stay, you can accumulate enough
miles for the trip of a lifetime or earn the 110,000 points
required to
qualify for the Southwest Companion Pass, which lets one person fly for -LSB-...]
The new tier, Platinum Pro, falls between Platinum and Executive Platinum and
requires 75,000 elite
qualifying miles or 90 elite
qualifying segments annually.
Starting January 1, spending will also figure into qualification for elite status, with access to each level
requiring a combination of elite -
qualifying dollars (EQDs) plus elite -
qualifying miles or segments.
American does offer status challenges, which
require a co-pay and a certain number of Elite
Qualifying Points (not
miles) within a 3 month period: 5,000 for Gold and 10,000 for Platinum.
For example, Executive Platinum
required either 100,000 elite
qualifying miles or points, or 120 segments.
The good news is if flying Air France La Premiere first class is on your bucket list and you do a lot of revenue travel, you could credit your
miles from a partner flight to Flying Blue to earn Silver elite status (which
requires 25,000
miles flown or 15
qualifying flights.
NOTE: If you've transferred
miles before and you don't
qualify for the above bonus, Delta's got you covered... those who have transferred before can earn a 25 % -40 % bonus with a different promo that
requires registration.
Only 20,000 elite
qualifying miles are
required.