Hyatt Elite Members: Register for Free AAdvantage Elite Status [Targeted]

If you happen to be a World of Hyatt Discoverist, Explorist, or Globalist member, you can claim complimentary American Airlines AAdvantage elite status for 4 months.

Through American’s Instant Status Pass program, you can take AA status for a test drive and then keep the status by completing qualifying activities every 4 months. You’ll start out with Gold status, which offers a valuable set of benefits, and then you can move even higher by earning Loyalty Points with AA — even as high as top-tier Executive Platinum status.

If you were thinking about switching your loyalty to a new airline, here are the details of this new promotion.

American Airlines Instant Status Pass to Platinum Pro

World of Hyatt elite members (from Discoverist up to Globalist levels) can register for American Airlines Instant Status Pass by September 4, 2025. Once you register for this promotion, you’ll enjoy instant Gold elite status for 4 months, which is the first phase of the promotion.

Gold is the lowest elite tier in the AAdvantage loyalty program, and it offers key benefits like complimentary upgrades on American and Alaska Airlines, a 40% mileage bonus, complimentary Main Cabin Extra (at check-in) and Preferred seats (at booking), priority boarding, and a free first checked bag.

In the next phase, you can keep your benefits for an additional 4 months by earning Loyalty Points — the single metric that American Airlines uses for elite status. More on that below.

The whole process starts again in “Phase 3” if you want to maintain elite status for an additional 4 months after that.

Unfortunately, this offer isn’t available to anyone who participated in an Instant Status Pass offer in the past 24 months. It’s also not available to members who already have the same or higher AAdvantage elite status tier.

If you haven’t seen any information about this offer yet, a spokesperson for Hyatt confirmed that members who are eligible to participate will receive an email alerting them to register “within the next few weeks.”

There are positives and negatives to this year’s version of the Instant Status pass, compared to last year’s offer. Last year, the offer was only available to Explorist and Globalist members, so the addition of Discoverist members makes this offer available to more people. Unfortunately, this year, the status you receive immediately is Gold — 2 tiers below the instant access to Platinum Pro available last year.

How To Earn Loyalty Points

American Airlines overhauled its loyalty program starting the 2024 qualification year with one simple qualification metric: Loyalty Points. This revenue-based earning for elite status makes qualification all about your spending and not necessarily the amount of flying.

You’ll earn 1 Loyalty Point per $1 spent on many activities, including travel on American and its Oneworld partners, as well as spending on an AAdvantage co-branded credit card, AAdvantage shopping and dining portals, among others.

With this straightforward approach, you could (theoretically) earn top-tier Executive Platinum status during Phase 2 with the Instant Status program by spending $67,000 on a co-branded card and never stepping foot on an American Airlines plane. Of course, it’s unlikely that you have this much spending in a short period of time, but a combination of the activities can help you qualify (and requalify) for status again and again.

Final Thoughts

American and Hyatt have swooped in to once again offer an instant status match program for Hyatt’s elite members — an offer that proved very popular last year. If you’re a World of Hyatt elite member, make sure to link your account to American Airlines and then check for an offer to enroll in this promotion.

You’ll receive complimentary AAdvantage Gold status for 4 months, and then you can keep it (or move up to a higher tier) with qualifying activities during that 4-month period.