Congratulations on getting to Silver jdw111.

If you get Gold tomorrow, you will be Gold until 8 May 2017. Or rather until 30 June 2017 in terms of most benefits. You would then soft land to Silver until 8 May 2018. So quite a spin really, basically one full year, but the remainder of the current year for promotions.

I'd give Burkina Faso a miss if I were you, there are no oneworld flights to that country at all! Ditto Slovakia.