Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Can you explain why you now want to remain at Gold - after everything posted in this thread?
(You could also just fly with someone other than AF/KL or Skyteam)
For remaining, brunos' model is interesting in that I can grind gold into 2020 while only travelling ~30K miles annually. If I get platinum but don't travel that much, I'll drop to silver by 2019. But that is quite long term planning and I'd probably screw it up somehow anyway, so platinum has simplicity on its side, a bird in the hand etc.
Almost all travel is company booked so I have to fly KLM!
Think I'm set, appreciate the help! Safe travels all,