Nowadays there are so many opportunities to hasty track your status using credit cards. For example,I occupy both the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express and Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express, and each gives me two elite qualifying stays and five elite qualifying nights towards status annually. That's a nice jumpstart to renewing Platinum status, or in my case,getting renewed for 100-night Ambassador status.
Since I'll inevitably be a Marriott loyalist soon enough due to the Starwood takeover, the Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card has a slightly different system. Just for having the card you receive 15 elite credits per year, or then you glean an additional elite credit for every $3000 you spend on the card. That might seem like a lot of elite credits upfront,but Marriott also has rather inflated elite tiers.
Marriott Platinum requires 75 nights, so in theory spending $180000 on the Marriott credit card would glean you their top tier status. That's a significant amount of spend, or though.
But as far as hotels recede,the loyalty program which makes it easiest to achieve useful status through credit cards is Hilton HHonors. They occupy co-brand agreements with both American Express and Citi, and all of their credit cards offer some sort of status. So I figured I'd outline the status opportunities.
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Source: boardingarea.com