Originally Posted by fakecd

apparently if you 'overqualified' last year for Silver (say you had 40k club miles and renewed silver), its reported that extra 10k miles will be 'considered' towards these renewals. Was that the case for you?

Also your flying pattern (i.e. revenue generated) appears to help their judgement? It seems if you were flying mostly Biz and fall short of Silver they would reaccomodate (my friend was only 23k and renewed silver as he had 2 long houl J-travel at one year). But if you were flying on ultra-cheapo HK-LHR V-class return that feel just short by even 40 miles, i read stories of being dumped to green.