Originally Posted by
LTN Phobia
So basically what you are saying is that they are doing a not very clever thing of only giving out the status once a year, so those who may have spent $40,000 in the first 3 months of the year may not even get the RA status until January the year after (by which time they might have got fed up with being treated as a normal Amb and defected to the likes of SPG), and if there are unlucky people who sent $9,900 in the last month of the 2017 and then again $9,900 in January 2018 would NOT get an RA.
It doesn't sound like a good system.
Yep, terrible status to aspire to, unless one is already RA (renewed/first-timer) from Jan2017 changed qualification regimen. Any newcomers with high spend 1Qnn or 1Hnn need wait 6-9months for deserved RA status. As such why bother starting with IC high $$$ spend at IC anymore.
Further correct, mno rolling 12month, so high IC spend in 2H2017 followed by 1H2018 is useless
Plus once guest loses RA status, that guest may well ditch IHG chain in entirety rather than chase next year spending even more $$$ at IC brand, . I know I will not bother with IHG if I lose my RA, other than the odd CP in Europe.