Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
I can see this is quite a severe ratcheting up of GGL's entry requirements, so I imagine some people will be very unhappy with this. The only existing members affected are European members and those who bobble along just above and below 3k, sometimes qualifying in some pairs of years, sometimes not. It also looks to me that the 2 year counting frame is difficult to administer hence the 5k entry criteria.
I guess the real issue would be those who have travel spread over the year and were targeting on getting 3k around September 2015 time, having already got 3k in the bank from last year. The one thing we can't change is our membership year, so it would have been better to have set the April deadline as 8 December so that there can't be any hint of lost ambition.
Yes, that would pretty much descibe my situation. I can get 3000 TPs per year, but 5000 TPs is a bit of an ask. Also membership year is December to December, and I do have 3000 TPs worth of flights booked for next year, but I would hit that threshold in August so the April deadline won't work for me. I am certainly one of those who are very unhappy with this.
As I noted, for those of us who were likely to continue maintaining GGL by hitting 3000 TPs a year this is a 66% in TPs required - it would be like raising GCH qualifiction fron 1500 to 2490 TPs. A 20% increase would be somewhat reasonable, but a 66% increase seems downright punative.
Anyway, nothing is going to change it so there you go, no point getting annoyed I suppose.