At what price point is it worth it to purchase upgrade to AA gold?

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If you call, inquire about price of a status challenge, and then say "no that's too much" they will sometimes give it to you for free. I did that with Gold and a free challenge was sitting in my inbox the next morning!

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Gold will get you Boarding Group 4, and that is the primary advantage with it.

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Gold def not worth paying for

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Yeah for real A1—if I have been missing this for the past 6 years I’ll be pissed lol but that sounds fishy to get first class boarding no matter what

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Will you be flying AA a lot next year?

If you're sure you won't make gold this year and you'll be flying AA frequently next year.

Yes - potentially almost every week for 6 months. Just depends on extension.

Yes but if you book through the travel portal will already give you group 1 boarding

Oh, you guys are fancy...we don't have that, I had to slum it out earlier this year to get Gold only to never fly AA again 😂

There’s also a small mileage bonus. But that perk is negligible. (You only get an extra $2.60 of miles per $100 spent)

Gold is actually a big step up from not gold (free bag, earlier boarding, priority access lines, etc). It's the other statuses that are stupid tiny incremental advantages until you get to EP. OP see if you can do a status challenge, I think it might be free when trying to reach gold.

K3, nope, challenges with AA are paid and you can only get up to Platinum.

A1 your tickets let you board with Ex Plat, no matter status? That’s pretty baller if so.

Yeah jealous about that too, A1. Def not the case for us.

P1, yeah, true normally, but occasionally they run free challenges for each firm too. That's how I got to Platinum this summer, but it's a limited window for sure.

I’m not sure what A1 is talking about. I’ve flown with and without status, but I’ve never been group 1. What travel portal are you using?

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