Journey to Top Elite Status on American and United Airlines FINAL UPDATE 2013

I bought ticket on AA using a small residual voucher from a flight change earlier this year for the positioning flight from DFW to LAX. Plus, I got to fly non stop and even got a little bit of bonus Elite and Redeemable miles from the AATHX promo as well.

Well, 2012 has come and gone and it's only the end of November! With the flights from the MegaDO international portion posted, I am officially an United Premier 1K again for 2013!  Glad I done for the year as airfares are high at the end of the year plus bad weather all abound (ie. Hurricanes/Megastorm Sandy and Northeasterns) make it hard to requalify for some people.

Here's a summary of what I accomplished this year on United and American Airlines.

	United Airlines	American Airlines
January	Premier Qualifying Miles – 7,726 Premier Qualifying Segments – 4  Redeemable Miles – 15,452	Elite Qualifying Miles – 54,942 Elite Qualifying Segments – 11 Redeemable Miles – 46,158
February	Premier Qualifying Miles – 12,924 Premier Qualifying Segments – 8  Redeemable Miles – 27,146	Elite Qualifying Miles – 20,692 Elite Qualifying Segments – 8 Redeemable Miles – 58,952
March	Premier Qualifying Miles – 21,961 Premier Qualifying Segments – 12  Redeemable Miles – 43,922	Elite Qualifying Miles – 11,712 Elite Qualifying Segments –  4 Redeemable Miles – 17,568
April	Premier Qualifying Miles – 16,382 Premier Qualifying Segments –  10 Redeemable Miles – 35,622	None
May	Premier Qualifying Miles – 7,726 Premier Qualifying Segments – 4  Redeemable Miles – 15,452	Elite Qualifying Miles – 13,028 Elite Qualifying Segments – 8 Redeemable Miles – 23,158
June	Premier Qualifying Miles – 4,000 Premier Qualifying Segments – 8  Redeemable Miles – 8,000 + 25,000 promo	None
July	None	None
August	Premier Qualifying Miles – 977 Premier Qualifying Segments – 2  Redeemable Miles – 1954	None
September/ October	Premier Qualifying Miles – 6,291 Premier Qualifying Segments – 6 Redeemable Miles – 12,582	None
November	Premier Qualifying Miles – 12,147 MegaDO Charter Domestic Premier Qualifying Miles – 5,000 Premier Qualifying Segments – 3 Redeemable Miles – 24,294 MegaDO Charter Domestic Redeemable Miles – 5,000	Elite Qualifying Miles – 2,470 Elite Qualifying Segments – 1 Redeemable Miles – 3,705
Totals to Date	Premier Qualifying Miles – 95,134 Premier Qualifying Segments – 57  Redeemable Miles – 209,424	Elite Qualifying Miles – 102,844 Elite Qualifying Segments – 31 Redeemable Miles – 149,541
Remainder Needed	Premier Qualifying Miles – 4,666 ^* Premier Qualifying Segments – 63 Re-Qualification Achieved Via Premier Qualifying Miles in November	Re-Qualification Achieved Via Elite Qualifying Miles in May
Notes	I received an extra 25% bonus redeemable miles (1298 miles to be exact) for crediting Continental operated flights to my Continental OnePass account for travel before March 3, 2012 from my Chase Presidential Platinum Credit Card. ^ Due to an error system error/glitch in Continental/United SHAREs system, I got some bonus PQMs/PQSs/RDMs for upgraded flights incorrectly coded as paid Domestic First Class earlier this year for Premier Qualifying Miles, Premier Qualifying Segments, and Redeemable Miles). * I did credit over 25,000 Status Miles to Turkish Airlines this year (which could be credited to United to reach Premier 1K level).   Plus, I have some Flexible PQMs left over from my Chase Continental Presidential Platinum Credit Card as well (with no expiration… for now)   I also received a bonus of 5,000 miles from customer care for compensation on a service issue this summer.	American offered a Double Elite Qualifying Miles / Double Elite Qualifying Points / Double Redeemable Miles for those members with an address in Texas, California and Illinois from October 27, 2011 with the offer extended 2 times all the way to June 30, 2012.  The flights were good for nonstop flights on these routes: DFW-LAX/SFO or ORD-LAX/SFO and also later ORD-SNA. There was a systemwide Double Elite Qualifying Miles good for December 13, 2011 through January 31, 2012 as well for all flights operated by AA. American offered a Double Elite Qualifying Miles / Double Elite Qualifying Segments /  Double Redeemable Miles promotion on November 16th good through the end of the year to make up for service failures and sticking with them through their bankruptcy restructuring.