Overview of lifetime airline status tiers & requirements

[MG1]

With Asiana about to depart Star, there are no other programs that count alliance partner flights towards LT status in Star, unlike OW or ST.

What about SA?
(I posted a question earlier about his.)

 

[Supersonic Swinger]

What about SA?
(I posted a question earlier about his.)

Fair point, but from my reading on the SAA Voyager rules, that requires 6 consecutive years at Platinum (at least 95,000 miles per year each year for at least 570,000 miles in total over six years) or at least 720,000 miles in four years. That is a LOT of flying - it's taken me over a decade to fly that many miles on all carriers from any alliance, concentrating that on Star carriers within 6 or 4 years would be an epic achievement!

 

[PeterPanPan]

Also @MG1, from my reading of the article, SA don't recognise Partner flights. So flights on SQ (as I plan) would not help.

 

[bPeteb]

Now that I've hit middle age, I feel like I've finally achieved Life Time Old status...

you poor 'old' thing

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

I have Qantas lifetime platinum, Asiana platinum, Korean morning calm premium club. My *A backup for when Asiana exits is many banked years Air NZ elite (not yet enough to consider it lifetime status but 16 is a good start).

I was also well on the way to Singapore lifetime PPS (about 12 months of flying short) when that got pulled.

 

[Supersonic Swinger]

I was also well on the way to Singapore lifetime PPS (about 12 months of flying short) when that got pulled.

What were the criteria for lifetime PPS?

 

[RB001]

What were the criteria for lifetime PPS?

Quite reasonable (YMMV, literally)

Only 1,875,000 miles or 1,000 PPS sectors.

 

[MG1]

Fair point, but from my reading on the SAA Voyager rules, that requires 6 consecutive years at Platinum (at least 95,000 miles per year each year for at least 570,000 miles in total over six years) or at least 720,000 miles in four years. That is a LOT of flying - it's taken me over a decade to fly that many miles on all carriers from any alliance, concentrating that on Star carriers within 6 or 4 years would be an epic achievement!

Agreed.

Also @MG1, from my reading of the article, SA don't recognise Partner flights. So flights on SQ (as I plan) would not help.

That's a pain - I thought that they did. Scrap that then.

 

[Chrizztofa]

For my travel patterns, I've found the zone/continent-based model of calculating status credits / tier points to be easier to obtain status compared to the distance or spend-based models which apply a multiplier to the actual distance flown or amount spent.

With BA and VA moving to spend-based models, are there any airlines other than QF that still primarily use a zone-based model?

IB seem to use it for partner flights (but not sure if you need to earn a minimum on IB to qualify for status in the first place), as does VA (although its usefulness for lifetime status going forward is limited given you need to earn 9,000 SCs via spend on VA-coded flights).