In addition, it is also possible that they might extend the soft landing to silver for some years. One ex-colleague of mine was AY Gold/Plat since early nineties (after the initiation of program) and after stopping flying for work, still received silver for several years (AFAIK, 3rd year running). Thenagain, silver nowadays isn't really big perk anymore so maybe that is why they dish it out so easily for long-time FF's.