Some Hyatt members received a promotional offer to get Instant Status from American Airlines. For Globalists, they instantly match to Platinum Pro for 4 months. They also get the ability to extend or upgrade status by meeting Loyalty Point thresholds every 4 months.
If you don’t plan to chase status, it makes sense just to sign up if you have an American flight in the next 4 months. It gives you Platinum Pro for 4 months. You get better seats, upgrades, checked bags, and free same day confirmed changes. Then just don’t meet the requirements and let it expire.
I was planning to go for AA Executive Platinum next year anyways. I would be Platinum until 2026 from 2024 activity. My original plan was to start earning LP on March 1st 2025, earn as fast as possible, and get status for 2 years. I estimate I would earn about 25k LP a month for 10 months. So I would be Platinum for 5 months, Platinum Pro for 3 months, and Executive Platinum for 16 months.
The status match divides the 200k LP requirement for Executive Platinum into phases. You have to earn 67k in each phase. So if I were to do the status match, I would have to earn 67k in phase 1, from 9/2/24-1/1/25. My phase 2 is from 1/2-5/1 but I would try to earn as much as possible from 3/1-5/1 so that it would count towards the next earning year. I would then try to earn 67k in phase 3. I would already have 134k LP in the 2025 year by completing phase 2 and 3. It would be 66k more to get EXP until 3/2027 and 116k more to get the milestone rewards. I would be Platinum for 4 months and EXP for 26 months.
Basically, it comes down to earning 67k extra LP from 9/2-1/1/25 just to get EXP for 10 more months. Is it worth it? I think the only reason it makes sense is because I would organically earn about 20k LP during this time period. This means just 47k more LP to earn EXP for 10 months. It would also mean hit the 30% LP boost milestone, which would increase my LP earn in March/April/May.
The Instant Status Pass offers are designed to change consumer behavior. There is a reason they’re never offered at the beginning of the status year. If they offered them at the start of the status year, you would get a full 2 years of status by completing the challenge. By offering them at the middle of the year, it divides your LP earn into two status years. It encourages more LP earn in the 2nd year because you’re already close to the next status level.
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