{"id":12491,"date":"2022-11-25T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/why-i-booked-a-finnair-flight-to-help-me-reach-american-airlines-elite-status\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T08:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:58:42","slug":"why-i-booked-a-finnair-flight-to-assist-me-attain-american-airlines-elite-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/why-i-booked-a-finnair-flight-to-assist-me-attain-american-airlines-elite-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I booked a Finnair flight to assist me attain American Airlines elite standing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before turning into a TPG reporter, I knew little or no about airline elite standing, and had by no means given a lot thought to incomes it myself.<\/p>\n

This is basically as a result of I grew up primarily flying Southwest Airlines<\/a> \u2014 and its two-tiered standing program would not provide the normal perks of airline elite standing<\/a>, like class upgrades or lounge entry.<\/p>\n

All of that modified as soon as I joined The Points Guy and realized the advantages that would come from incomes airline elite standing, together with complimentary seat and flight upgrades, free checked baggage, precedence boarding and lounge entry. I’ve skilled a few of these advantages<\/a> as an American Airlines AAdvantage Gold member for the previous 10 months.<\/p>\n

However, since I’ve had entry-level AA standing<\/a>, I knew routine flight upgrades could be few and much between. Also, the one approach I might entry an Admirals Club free of charge is by having a qualifying flight or being Concierge Key, which is AA’s top-tier standing.<\/p>\n

As with many flyers, the opportunity of being upgraded to a greater cabin, comparable to enterprise or top notch, is a precedence to me, so I made a decision to kick my standing quest into excessive gear about midway by means of the yr.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, I mapped out some journey plans to assist meet the subsequent standing threshold, which is why I took a 66-hour and 15-minute round-trip flight on Finnair final month.<\/p>\n

Here’s why and the way I did that \u2014 and the way this helped set me as much as attain Platinum for 2023.<\/p>\n

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A standing run<\/h2>\n

One method to shortly and effectively additional your standing targets on any airline is by finishing a mileage run<\/a>. This sometimes includes flying from level A to level B and again to level A, typically with out leaving the airport on the vacation spot, merely for the sake of flying a certain quantity of miles or reaching the spending thresholds essential to earn or requalify for standing.<\/p>\n

This will be notably helpful for AAdvantage standing targets since AA’s standing foreign money, Loyalty Points<\/a>, are earned primarily based on distance, spending and fare class flown.<\/p>\n

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Generally talking, one base mile earned equates to 1 Loyalty Point. These are earned everytime you fly an AA-operated or Oneworld associate flight<\/a>, use a cobranded American Airlines bank card<\/a> or earn eligible base miles that rely as Loyalty Points, together with by buying on-line by way of the AA buying portal<\/a> and SimplyMiles portal<\/a> or consuming at taking part eating places within the eating rewards program AAdvantage Dining.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, since I do not at the moment have a cobranded bank card, I knew the quickest method to attain the 75,000-Loyalty-Point threshold required for AAdvantage Platinum was to ebook a long-haul flight in a premium cabin, on both American or a Oneworld associate.<\/p>\n

You earn bonus miles that qualify towards your Loyalty Points stability while you fly a premium cabin, particularly premium economic system, enterprise or top notch. Because you get extra Loyalty Points for flying in a premium cabin, I knew I wished to fly premium economic system at a minimal.<\/p>\n

Also, since flights on associate airways additionally qualify for Loyalty Points, I selected to ebook a premium economic system fare sort on Finnair<\/a>, primarily based on its availability out of my dwelling airport \u2014 Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read extra: Comparing the Finnair premium economic system flight expertise on the A330 versus the A350<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

While this determination was largely a standing run, I additionally picked this flight as a result of I wished to go to Singapore for the primary time.<\/p>\n

To facilitate this, I discovered a round-trip flight from ORD to Singapore’s Changi Airport (SIN)<\/a>, with a protracted layover every approach at Helsinki Airport (HEL). In whole, I spent 66 hours and quarter-hour in transit over 5 days throughout 20,372 miles.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a 40% elite-status bonus as a Gold member, I earned 28,554 Loyalty Points and American Airlines redeemable award miles on this one journey.<\/p>\n

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