American Airlines Gold Status Challenge For Hyatt Members (Activate In September)

American Airlines Gold Status Challenge For Hyatt Members

Last night when I was working on canceling an upcoming flight home from Prague and I stumbled on a new offer in my account. There was an American Airlines Gold status challenge because of my Hyatt Explorist status.  I thought that it was weird timing to roll out a challenge but luckily you can wait until September 30th to activate it.  It does look to be a true challenge and not a status match with a challenge like last year.  Let’s take a look at the details.

Details of American Airlines Gold Status Challenge

As a World of Hyatt Explorist member, you now have an exclusive opportunity to fast track to AAdvantage® Gold elite status.

Here’s how:

Register by September 30, 2020, and complete the qualifying activity below within 3 months of registering, and you’ll enjoy AAdvantage® Gold status through January 2022:

• Earn $1,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) and either 7,000 Elite Qualifying Miles (EQMs) or 8 Elite Qualifying Segments (EQSs)

Rules:

Qualifying EQDs, EQMs and EQSs are earned when you fly on eligible tickets for flights operated by American Airlines or marketed by American, American Eagle®, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Qantas.

Benefits of AAdvantage® Gold status include:

• Complimentary upgrades on flights 500 miles or less within North America (confirmed as early as 24 hours before departure)
• Priority check-in, security and boarding
• 7 award miles/U.S. dollar (40% bonus)
• Complimentary access to Preferred seats
• 1 free checked bag
• oneworld® Ruby℠ status on partner airlines

Terms Of Offer

• This is an exclusive offer only for World of Hyatt Explorist members who successfully linked their AAdvantage® and World of Hyatt accounts
• Register by 11:59 p.m. CDT on September 30, 2020, and before travel for your EQMs, EQDs and EQSs to count toward this promotion
• You can only participate in 1 elite-status challenge at a time
• Travel completed before registration doesn’t count toward this challenge
• Eligible tickets include purchased, published fares flown between the date you register and the date 3 months after you register
• Qualifying eligible flights must be operated by American Airlines or marketed by American, American Eagle®, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines or Qantas
• Flights marketed and/or operated by codeshare partners not listed above aren’t eligible for this promotion
• Bonus EQDs and EQMs don’t count toward this offer
• After you reach the required thresholds, your elite-status benefits will begin through January 31, 2022
• You must requalify for elite-status membership annually
• Additional terms and conditions apply

Final Thoughts

As you know we have stopped sharing deals that put people in danger or encourage breaking social distancing.  I decided to share this since you can wait until September to activate it.  Hopefully some travel has picked up by the fall but we don’t know yet.

World of Hyatt Globalist members do not appear to be targeted for the offer since they were gifted Executive Platinum status last year.  Hopefully American extends that status into next year like Delta has.

I personally have never found airline status to be worth the effort but offers like this make the math look more appealing. But with no close in booking fee on American Airlines any longer one of Gold status’ biggest perks has become useless. Because of that I am not sure how much this is really worth.

Anyone considering taking them up on the offer if travel is back in the fall?

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