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Travel The World
After years of having Diamond status we've been downgraded to lowly Gold status, mainly due to postponing a six-week trip last year due my wife being ill ... and to reaffirm this have just received our new Gold Status cards.
We're doing that trip later this year (all being well with the wife) so will regain Diamond status, but it's going to be a strange year ... we won't actually be Diamond whilst regaining the status so will be battling against the many many Gold status people, some of whom will not have "earned" that status of course.
Hello Travel The World,
I hope your wife is fully recovered soon and can do the mentioned trip.
I have been Gold for 4 years and only at the end of 2009 I reached Dia.
In all of my trips as Gold(quite a few because I always kept my status by hotel stays) only twice I did not have EL access because there were not ER available, and I got the b/fast vouchers, so while it is good to have the top status, very likely you will not find much difference.