Earn Faster Gold Status at 27 Airlines Through One Miles Program
Getting to elite status with an airline is your ticket to more comfortable travel: priority check-in, waived baggage fees, airline lounge access, and more. For the 27 airlines that are part of Star Alliance, you could achieve gold status with far fewer miles you might normally need to accumulate. Here’s how:
According to Airfarewatchdog, the secret is to use Aegean Airlines as your miles-earning program. Instead of putting all your effort into earning the typical 50,000 miles you’d need on the other airlines in Star Alliance to reach gold status, you can get gold status on Aegean with just 20,000 miles—and this gives you all the benefits of gold on every other airline in the Star Alliance, including United, Continental, and US Airways. To do this, when you fly on any Star Alliance airline, use your Aegean Airlines frequent flyer number when you buy your tickets:
