Originally Posted by
orbitmic
I believe so, although of course, the "downside" is that your TPs would then credit to the current year where you know you'll be silver anyway as opposed to the next year where even with heavily discounted Y, you would get 4x35 = 140 TPs so almost a quarter of what you need to keep silver that year.
That's not so. If the OP is flying close to the month end where their status drops then they will already be into their new TP year. Membership extends about 7 weeks past the TP reset date.