I took the challenge and got the gold card back in April (I did 6 legs CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; CDG-FCO; FCO-ATH)
- in bold the one that counted for the challenge-
After 6 months of Gold, my status got cancelled without any explanation end of September.
All miles from from April 2017 (around 10k) got cancelled.
Call center is explaining me that I was downgraded as the rules are following:
CDG-FCO and FCO-ATH are not counting as 2 qualifying flights but only as 1 as the 2 legs are in one booking number/ticket.
CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; is counting as 2 legs because even if the booking code/ticket number is unique the flights to CDG are in 2 different days.
Therefore I made only 3 qualifying legs and not 4.
Call center was playing around the word legs and flights all the time.
I got downgraded to basic (no softlanding to Silver for me) and received my basic card yesterday.
Alitalia Millemiglia never again!!