Originally Posted by
Billyfergus
But I am not increasing in status since I already am Platinum. However, based on what you say, this means that I am losing out on my status earned by taking 69 flights in 2017 which should allow me to remain Platinum to end of 2018 and using up my 300 XP earned in the first three months of 2018 for only an additional three months? Does this mean if I stayed at 299 XP until of end of year and only gained one more XP on the last day of year, I would have Platinum to end of 2019 instead of April 2019? Hardly encouring people to stick with sky teams airlines if this is the case.
No, the realignment would only take place in case you were Gold for 2018 based on your flights in 2017.
So if you were, say, Platinum for 2017, but in 2017 you only took 45 flights for 50k miles, and then you had 44 flights in Q1 2018 then it would mean you become Platinum by virtue of 308XP on April 1st.
In that case, you would have a Platinum card for 2017+3m, then you would get your Gold card for 2018+3m, and on April 1st you'd have qualified for Platinum again until Mar 2019 (+3 months, presumably)
If you only had 42 flights in Q1 2018, and therefore 294XP from conversion, you'd become Gold as normal on April 1st, however as soon as you reached 300 (so 3 domestic flights in Eco, or 1 domestic and 1 international or maybe 1 longhaul eco), you'd become Platinum again, for that date + 1 year (+3 months, presumably)