Originally Posted by
kaka
i think this "perk" is a bit new that we can pull up some generalizations. but for my mum, she got SL after flying some 22K club miles(when there was the 70% status qualification "promo"). her year ends in nov and she got SL in may. def not at the year-end.
similar case for my mum too.
she got GR from the AE card years ago, and got promoted to SL at ~24k club miles.