Originally Posted by
trinity_in_texas
No.
The qual. year is Jan1 - Dec 31. The membership year is March 1 to Feb 28th.
You only have the qualification year to accrue the needed points/miles/segments.
The OP will be PLAT until 3/1/08, so if the OP did 50K miles/points, whatever, in JAN/FEB08 s/he can keep PLAT until 3/1/09.
and the membership year STARTS as soon as you hit status, not on March 1.