How to earn American Airlines MQDs 2024?

To be more precise, earning American Airlines MQDs in the year 2024.

American Airlines has one of the largest programs to reward the flying loyalty of its customers, known as AAdvantage. Thus, to get elite status for AAdvantage members, the members must accumulate both EQM and MQD points. MQDs are their method of making certain that flyers are genuinely valuable to American Airlines and not simply accumulating miles just because of credit card incentive offers.

For the 2024 elite status qualification, American Airlines has three published elite tiers:

Gold: 25,000 EQMs or 30 EQDs and $3,000 MQD.

Platinum: 50,000 EQMs or 60 EQDs and MQDs totaling $6,000.

Executive Platinum: 100 000 EQMs or 120 EQDs, and 12000 MQDs

Year 2024 to secure the coveted top-tier status? Here are some tips:

• Fly-paid tickets on American Airlines or partners: This is the quickest way to accumulate MQDs as it involves a direct transaction of cash for airline miles. When you purchase a revenue ticket and travel on American, Oneworld, Alaska Airlines, or other designated partners, you will earn MQDs based on the fare’s base amount plus carrier-imposed fees. This is without taxes and airport charges. The greater the number of flight distance miles, the better the MQDs earned per flight segment, with longer distances earning better MQDs.
• Book higher class of service: MQDs can be collected by flying with a particular airline, but you earn more when you travel in first or business class instead of economy class. For domestic flights, you earn approximately 5-7 MQDs per dollar for the base fare for the economy but 9–11 MQDs per dollar for first or business class. The international business class pays even more, and this should be the basic pay structure for any employee.
• Fly more expensive economy tickets. Not all economy fares are the same and can even be misleading at times. “I” and “B” economic fares, including full fare tickets, earn MQDs at a slightly higher rate of 7–11 MQDs per dollar spent. Basic economy fares such as ‘M’, ‘E’, ‘U’, ‘L’, ‘V’, and ‘W’ even earn as little as 5 MQD per dollar spent.
• Spend on cobranded credit cards: It is noteworthy that credit card spending does not have any relation to the earning of any EQMs or MQMs; however, MQDs can be earned through spending. In Citi/AAdvantage Platinum, the $3,000 MQD waiver is earned based on your spending—one $3,000 MQD waiver for every $25,000 spent. Citi Advantage Executive personal credit card holders are rewarded with a $6,000 waiver for every $40,000 spent.
• Match status from another airline: It is convenient to note that American allows you to correlate status with either Delta or United. The requalification is in your best interest and if you match to Executive Platinum, you get the full $12,000 MQD waiver in 2024.
• Gift MQD waiver to someone else: For members within the same household, an elite member can also pass on a waiver of his or her unused MQD to another elite member up to the same Executive Platinum status level.
• Earn with AAdvantage e-shopping portal: You can earn 1 MQD per dollar spent for online purchases made through participating partners with over 1000 merchants. Though not very large, each MQD counts and all of them are valued.

Some of the above tips to ensure are as follows: By 2024, the above tips, such as flying more frequently, purchasing more expensive economy tickets when possible, using a cobranded credit card for spending, and utilizing partnerships, should be implemented. Thinking strategically about MQDs will bring you significantly closer to redeeming the benefits of the great American Airlines elite status, such as domestic upgrades, free baggage, priority services, and Admirals Club membership.

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