I do wonder though how many plats will be taken out by December 2017 because of this change?
If I am already earning above 40,000 points these past 2 years each from stays with bonus points and accelerator points. Not only that but I am still sure I would fall short by a decent 2000-3000 status points atleast if this went through.
So really this would seem to apply only to those people who earned over 50,000 points in last couple of years who would likely get over the requirment.
I would imagine the number of plats earning 50,000 or more would be much less than 20% of the current number of platinium members.
Isn't that a little too harsh?
Of course if your already going well beyond that 50,000 points then less plats is a nice thing as you would likely be spending more than 5600 euro's a year.
Anyway we'll see if these numbers hold. I think as some others have said maybe 10,000-12,000 status points might be a far more reasonable amount for plats.