Originally Posted by
brunos
Indeed, there is a soft landing but that is a bit unrelated to my point.
There is some "vicious" asymetric effect in granting rollover miles only on OLD status level (earned the year before).
Except that the other suggestion is much easier (and cheaper).
If your daughter stops at 69k this year (just to have 29k in rollover miles to start off 2013 with) she will require a further 11k status miles to be earned in 2013 to secure gold again for 2014.
But if she got to 70k this year, then all she needs to take is one mileage earning flight in 2013 in order to secure gold again for 2014.
So, if she thinks it's better to stop now and then have 11k to fly next year, when instead she could just take one flight next year in order to have the same outcome (Gold [or higher] until at least the end of 2014) perhaps you should have another word with her...