Originally Posted by
irishguy28
(If you qualify on the basis of dirt-cheap short european sectors, your ability to qualify for Gold will be stretched and you may find you need to add more flights - or a couple of business flights - to help reach 300XP, which is a more challenging target for "cheap" flyers than was the 30 segments).
If you are based out of AMS or are a French resident yes. If you live elsewhere in Europe and always transfer through CDG/AMS, then requalification is not that different as long as you don't go to France much.
Gold currently requires 8 SH European trips (8 x 4 segments to get the 30 required) and in the future it will be 9 trips (9 x 4 segments x 5 XP to get 180 XPs required). However a couple of long hauls or J segments could mean that 8 trips are enough and for some, fewer trips will be required than before.
For me who doesn't even come close to qualifying via level miles, there has never been any point in using KL for long haul J - I might consider it now as the additional XPs actually count for something.