Originally Posted by
M@rcoPolo
So - say you are Accor Plus Platinum until the end of November 2017 (end of your Accor Plus membership) - comes 30/11/2017 they will look at Status Points & Nights for 1. Calendar year 2016 and 2. The period from 1/1/17 to 30/11/17 and use the highest number to determine your status for the following year (from 1/12/17 to 30/11/18). This is ok if your Accor Plus membership expires late in the year (e.g. expiring 31/12 you basically have 2 full calendar years to play with, expiring 30/11 you have a full calendar year and an 11 months period) but obviously not so good if your Accor Plus membership expires early in the calendar year.
What to do? Check now your qualifying Status Points & Nights achieved during CY2016 (you'll find this info under My Loyalty Card > My Points History) - if you have enough Status Points or Nights to maintain Platinum (or whatever status you are trying to maintain) then there's no need to stress, you will maintain your status at renewal time... if not, then you better start booking away if you want to maintain your Accor status!
To make things even more complicated - it looks like the above only applies if you decide to renew your Accor Plus membership... if you don't, who knows what will happen as you'll be left in limbo between the Accor Plus and the LeClub "systems"
This is your own interpretation, I suppose.
To me what does it mean by:
1. The current calendar year
2. The previous calendar year
Calendar year typically mean 1-Jan to 31-Dec.
So if this year, 2017, current calendar year should mean 1-Jan-2017 to 31-Dec-2017 and previous calendar year means 1-Jan-2016 to 31-Dec-2016.
To me this does not make sense at all
Your interpretation should be the current year to date (or what ever it should be called) and if your interpretation is correct, then like you said this is not very fair.
Like I have posted somewhere before on the video provided on the email communicated before, which the mention about 2018, the 2 qualification period they are talking are:
1. 12 months of the membership cycle as per normal. Hence if your membership renewal is in Nov, they will look Nov-2017 to OCt-2018
2. previous year calendar year, i.e. 1-Jan-2017 to 31-Dec-2017
To me this is give the Aplus member a benefit.
However for 2017 this does not work, as this mean as Aplus member, the new criteria (aka bonus points does not count to elite) has started prior to 1-Jan-2017.
This is why I keep saying, they should give the Aplus member a skip for 2017 (as transition year) and give the elite status until renewal of 2018. Hence Aplus member enjoy added benefit compare to non paying member, as their elite status now valid beyond 31-Dec-2017.