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American Airlines has sent out an e-mail to some members offering them free status (e-mail subject lines “Free Platinum Pro status for you” or “Free Gold status for you”. All of the offers require signing up by February 1st, 2018 and run until May 25th, 2018. Here are the different offers:
Gold Status
Direct link to offer, promo code HV18G
- Free gold status
- Maintain gold status until January 31st, 2019 if you earn 7,000 elite qualifying miles and spend $1,000 elite qualifying dollars from now until May 25th, 2018
- 10 500-mile upgrade certificates
Platinum Pro Status
Direct link to offer, promo code HV18T
- Free Platinum pro status
- Maintain platinum pro status until January 31st, 2019 if you earn 20,000 elite qualifying miles and spend $3,000 elite qualifying dollars from now until May 25th, 2018
- 20 500-mile upgrade certificates
Our Verdict
Some are suggesting this is being targeted towards people that have credited American Airlines flights to Alaska.
Hat tip to readers Yrk, Chris P @jcw0695 & Angelina Travels
Curiously I received a promo card for HV18M in snail mail, but no email whatsoever. I registered under the code and only got a confirmation email; I had already stupidly thrown away that card, so I only vaguely remember it has to do with completing some activities to GET Gold status (I don’t have the status after registering). I emailed them and hope to get some information.
RE: Quote: Some are suggesting this is being targeted towards people that have credited American Airlines flights to Alaska.
Let me try an anecdotal 2cents.
No Alaska travel.
My DH was targeted; I was not.
DH drives. Who travels by air? Me.
No AA or any other airline portal shopping by either of us.
This is related to consumer public information. Include income and whether occupation falls within professional category, mostly obtained through credit grantors, and my DH probably tripped some algorhythm.
will they send out physical membership card?
I received the gold status offer. I am MVP with AS. I did not fly AA last year, but I did redeem miles for a BA First flight from SEA-VIE. There was a mechanical failure on the scheduled BA plane so the flight cancelled and they rebooked me on the next flight(same flight but 24 hours later). When BA rebooked me it made it look like I had paid a seat so I ended up getting a ton of miles credited to my AA account since it is linked to my BA flight. I’m thinking that is why I was given the fee gold status.
DP: past AA Gold, recently no status due to changing business travel hubs, was not targeted.
in the last 12 months, Flew 2x cross country in paid first, burned close to 500k miles flying family back from Oz through Tahiti on code share metal and AA metal, have flights on miles booked to Barbados for March, have flights for family booked to Alaska for summer, have citi and Barclay AA cards, no offer at all for me
The same with Jay, I received the free platinum pro status. Never flown AA before and have never had status on any other airline.
Any DP’s on whether you can sign up for an AA credit card (Citi or Barclays) now and get this upgrade offer?
Here’s a different offer I got…
You’ve been selected to receive free American Airlines AAdvantage® Platinum status through May 25, 2018. You’ll experience all the benefits of Platinum status. Plus, we’ll give you twenty 500-mile upgrades just for registering — no strings attached.
Sign up before you travel and no later than February 1, 2018. Use promotion code HV18P.
Claim your status now
To extend your elite benefits through January 31, 2019, earn 12,500 Elite Qualifying Miles (EQMs) and $2,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) on American or other eligible airlines for travel between the date you register and May 25, 2018.**
Same as mine
I havent flown aa in the last decade (maybe never in my life).
In last few months, again started using my aa account to sign up for miles for survey and did few shopping trips (total in all <15$).
Surprisingly got platinum status offer.
Any way to MATCH it to any other program? Especially *A as might have TK metal trip during the promo period.
UA doesnt match status gotten via promo offer