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16 comments
Christian
June 23, 2018
A nice post, and more detailed than many. As a holder of an Asiana card from BOA, can I be approved for another?
Michael McHugh
June 25, 2018
Hi Christian
The short is answer is yes.
BOA has a 2/3/4 rule that is important to know. The rule is that you’ll only be approved for 2 cards per rolling 2 months, 3 cards per rolling 12 months, and 4 cards per rolling 24 months.
Based on what I’ve read, there is not limit to the amount of credit cards you can have with BOA but I’d recommend researching to confirm.
Burmisoutdoor
June 26, 2018
Amazing post. Traveling while earning money seems like a good way to go. I would love to read more from the blog.
Michael McHugh
June 26, 2018
Hi Burmisoutdoor
Please let us know what topics you’d like to see covered in the future.
Credit
August 15, 2018
Asiana ff program has an early promotion feature, such effectively makes getting their diamond (star alliance gold) 60k miles and > 24 months venture.
Anyway to avoid this early promotion?
Michael McHugh
August 16, 2018
Hi Credit
I’m not sure I’m following the question. Please explain.
Credit
August 16, 2018
See the example here:
https://flyasiana.com/C/US/EN/contents/elite-membership-eligibility-period
The criteria is reset once you get gold unless you jump directly to diamond without getting early promoted to gold.
I.e if you will fully 45k miles in next 24 months better to get diamond directly than gold end then diamond. Correct?
Michael McHugh
August 26, 2018
Yea I would focus on earning diamond directly based on reading the requirements and eligibility on the Asiana website. I’m not the expert here so I’d recommend finding a second opinion just in case.
Henrik
November 04, 2018
I think Asiana has the most generous rule to become a Star Alliance Gold Member. Even just their own Asiana Club Gold members receive two free Asiana Business Lounge coupons in Korea. 40,000 miles during two years period shouldn’t be too hard. Almost all Star Alliance Airlines require mileage collect activities during one year period. And almost all of them required 50,000 miles become Star Alliance Gold Member Tier. With Asiana, Just need to be extremely careful with the cabin class from other Star Alliance airlines because some of them are 0% mileage accumulation (really cheap ticket)!
Red
July 08, 2019
How can you earn status miles with Asiana (to hit the 40K within 2 years) to get the gold status other than flying with them and star alliance? Are there other cards, tricks that help you gather status miles?
Jarrod West
July 10, 2019
Hi Red,
In order to earn Gold status, you’ll need to earn 20,000 miles in a 24-month period or have boarded 30 Asiana Airlines flights. We actually have a full post on the Asiana loyalty program, check it out here: /airline-loyalty-programs/asiana-airlines-asiana-club/
Red
July 11, 2019
Hey Jarrod, thanks for your reply. What I did actually mean is the Star Alliance gold status, which in this case is the Asiana Diamond status. I think it requires you to fly the 40K status miles in 24 months. Is there any other way to reach this amount of status miles without flying? I guess all credit cards will only count for regular miles (not status miles) right?
Jarrod West
July 11, 2019
Hi Red,
That is correct. The only way to qualify is through flying. Miles earned through credit cards will not count towards status requirements.
Jake
January 20, 2020
Wrong. Up to 10k miles earned by credit card spending count toward Diamond status (5k to Gold). Considering it only takes 30k miles for requalifying for Diamond, you only need to fly 20k miles in two years provided you earn 10k miles by credit card.
Asiana Club is by far the easies option for Star Gold status, even much easier than the famous Aegean!
Jarrod West
January 21, 2020
Hi Jake,
I appreciate you pointing that out. I hadn’t realized that the annual bonus miles you receive from the Asiana card count as well.
Thanks for reading!
Denise B
June 27, 2023
Hi! I am having a difficult time getting ahold of Asiana through all their US numbers, toll free or local. My question is how can I apply for an upgrade to one of my flight segments from Economy to Business (ICN to SEA) using family miles? I see no way to do that on the website. It is very confusing!
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