Originally Posted by
intuition
I remember someone saying that they may waive the fee for existing plats. No idea if it still is this way, doesn't hurt to try though.
I was a Plat before and came some 15,000 tier points short of the 150,000 points threshold during my last tracking period ending in May. I had to pay the €20 for the exchange. I think they just offered to waive the fee last year as part of an offer.
BTW This exchange of points must be one of the best improvements of the Plus program in the last decade. For the amount of points for one long haul upgrade I could get two extra l/h upgrade vouchers + all the OW Emerald benefits for one more year. A no-brainer for sure!