American has just announced the details of their 2012 Elite Rewards program. Through Elite Rewards, elite members can earn bonuses for earning more elite qualifying points thank required for reaching their status level. Basically it incentives you to continue flying American even if you're already requalified for your status level. The first (good) thing worth…
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Yeah, this doesn't seem likely to be helpful to me. I admit, my case is extreme, but as of now I have 95,850 EQMs but just 16,428 points. Somehow I don't see myself flying another 218,000 miles this year.
Do they ever have promotions where you can earn bonus EQPs rather than EQMs?
What if I am GLD and take a challenge to reach PLT but only nest 40K-49K EQP? Do I get a chance to select one of the GLD rewards?
@ dbeach -- I've only ever seen promotions for bonus EQMs.
@ Maidenz -- Nope, you can only earn the bonus for the status level you actually earn, even if you surpass others in the year. So if you're a Platinum at the end of the year, your rewards would be based on that.
Last year the late announcement of this promo made it so those hitting 125k+ EQP before about October could request an additional 2 SWUs for every 25k EQP beyond 100k, separate from the Elite Rewards program. I ended the year with 160k EQP and was refused even one pair of SWUs. At least this year will be consistent.
If any Platinum or Executive Platinum members want to gift me Gold as one of your perks, I'd really appreciate it!