{"id":11616,"date":"2025-04-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:36:08","slug":"leveraging-southwest-for-all-the-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/leveraging-southwest-for-all-the-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Southwest for All the Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Major US Airlines are all targeting Southwest elites with extremely generous &#8220;twist-the-knife while they&#8217;re dying&#8221; style status matches, and that means you&#8217;ve got a unique opportunity for manufacturing a ton of airline status with a single swing. Let&#8217;s start with earning A-List Preferred using a Chase Southwest credit card:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>$5,000 spent = 1,500 tier points<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>35,000 tier points = A-List<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>70,000 tier points = A-List Preferred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In post-mathematics words, $230,000 in real or manufactured spend takes you from zero to A-List Preferred, or if you&#8217;re an underachiever $115,000 spend takes you from zero to A-List. Now, once you&#8217;ve got that status, combine with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/us\/en\/skymiles\/medallion-program\/status-match-challenge\">Delta&#8217;s limited-time match to Platinum<\/a> (or Gold for A-List), which gives SkyTeam Elite+<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.united.com\/en\/us\/fly\/mileageplus\/premier\/status-match.html\">United&#8217;s match to Gold<\/a> (or Silver for A-List), which gives Star Alliance Gold<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/i18n\/aadvantage-program\/aadvantage-status\/aadvantage-status-match.jsp\">AA&#8217;s limited-time match to Platinum Pro<\/a> (or Platinum for A-List), which gives oneworld Emerald<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/content\/mileage-plan\/membership-benefits\/status-match?srsltid=AfmBOor59OKuAiNDt7am6GYld3AhcNQmslUyH_285pobhMDJB7xVk31T\">Alaska&#8217;s match to MVP Gold<\/a> (or MVP for A-List), which gives oneworld Sapphire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for $230,000 in manufactured spend you can hold status with all of the top five US airlines and also status in every major airline alliance in the world, MEAB style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy hunting!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-1024x677.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11617\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Next time: taking it to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major US Airlines are all targeting Southwest elites with extremely generous &#8220;twist-the-knife while they&#8217;re dying&#8221; style status matches, and that means you&#8217;ve got a unique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,66,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-scaling","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}