Originally Posted by
xavzz
An email I just received:
Retaining tier statusEmirates Skywards Silver, Gold and Platinum members with a tier review date prior to 1 March 2021 will retain their current status for a further 12 months with just 80% of the usual travel requirements.
Extending tier statusEmirates Skywards Silver, Gold and Platinum members, with a tier status review between March 2020 and September 2020 who are unable to retain their existing tier, will have their existing status extended until 31 December 2020.
Extending Miles validityThose members who have Skywards Miles expiring soon needn’t worry – we’ve has extended their validity until 31 December 2020. Skywards Miles can be redeemed up to 11 months in advance for an extensive range of rewards, including flight tickets on Emirates and partner airlines, flight upgrades, hotel stays, and money-can’t-buy experiences..
Please note: Details of this relaxed policy may not immediately reflect in the ‘My Account’ section of emirates.com
This is rubbish, They seem to be among the very few stingy airlines that keep this stup.... policy of counting the cents and pieces. How on earth are people gonna be able to keep any status at all when flights have been suspended and will be suspended till at least June? Obviously business isn't going to resume from one day to another, nor will people be in a position to spend money on leisure travel to keep status?
After the flight suspensions are over, it's gonna be summer, which is "low season" for business anyway, so at best, in my case at least, business will resume in september, which gives me literally 1 months to have the insane number of miles required to qualify (my review date is sometime in October). or do they expect us to fly back to back?
Skywards miles are already worthless, and these sort of policies they have having (in addition to the upgrade on basis of fare paid) are gonna drive people away to competition. as simple as that.
Pure madness.