Originally Posted by
irishguy28
No; in all examples there, the hypothetical member is currently Platinum; I tease out all possible scenarios on where a Platinum can end up. You've gone off on your own tangent there so I won't comment!
How have
I gone off on a tangent?
You say:
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
TBut having Silver would mean you would need to earn 100 + 180 XP in a row to get back to Gold, so it is better than starting with a rollover and lower status
But this is an
actual impossibility. Under NO circumstances EVER does a Silver member
need to earn 100 + 180 XP to get to Gold. As soon as a Silver member gains 180XP in a qualification period (up to 13 months), they become Gold.
Only Explorer members need to earn 100 + 180 XP to get to Gold.
Your quote only makes sense, if you meant to show how this hypothetical member under these hypothetical rules fell to
Silver and wanted to get back to
Platinum, in which case they would need to earn
180 + 300 XP, less any XP that would have been granted as Surplus (i.e. the 75XP in your 175XP example)
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
How could it ever be possible to start the year with the same XP balance that you ended it with (other than zero)?????
In any manner Flying Blue decide to allow.
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
If you're Platinum/Gold/Silver/Ivory with, say, 10XP - you get a soft landing (or stay ivory) and start with 0 in all cases.
If you're Platinum/Gold with, say, 185 XP, you go to/remain Gold and start with 5 XP.
This mechanism is
not confirmed. It's extremely like this is how it will work, but it is not
confirmed.
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
(You always lose either everything, or the "threshold amount". There is no mechanism - except when you have nothing to start with - where you can survive a year change without losing any XPs. The benefit is shown in the table as "keep surplus XP". That means XPs have to, by definition, be subracted - otherwise there is no surplus (none of the status levels has a threshold for qualifcation of 0XP!! the one that does - Explorer - does not qualify for a rollover!!))
There is no definition of Surplus XP that I could find. As such I do not consider it
confirmed.