Originally Posted by
blackball
Categorically, this is not the case. Like you said, that would be crazy, and there is absolutely no reason why it would be done that way (or why one would think it would be done this way).
I would think that, because (contrary to what the title suggests) it was already reported a few posts above...
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/32250878-post83.html
But yeah, it could have been a temporary glitch or them just forgetting about it in the beginning and taking care of it later on.
Originally Posted by
KLouis
Yes, I do not read the rules for a status that I will fall back to when I stop flying (next year or so), I'll do it then, But, really, I don't understand why you get sort of angry just because I don't agree with everything you wrote. I have my opinion, you have yours, and the "only" argument in favour of mine is that, in my eyes, blue members are not the ones who are targeted by frequent flyer programs throughout the industry to expect a special treatment from any of those.
Your disagreement wasn't with my "opinion" but rather with the simple truth (that is also backed by the numbers I, or better Aegean themselves, provide, just your 2 questions again to see what I mean). Perhaps I did try the wrong approach though, this isn't a "we don't care about you blues" message, but rather "we're stupid enough not to think about you", because anyone who has gathered even a single status mile going backwards 12 months from March 2020 should be considered as a candidate for a higher status and should in this aspect be treated exactly like the holder of that status, who is "trying" (also by gathering miles, in fact fewer of them!) to retain that status. It has absolutely nothing to do with the privileges of a specific status, it has to do with (effectively) nullifying the value of a "product" that someone has spent money on acquiring (and from what I've read in this forum, Aegean has received €€ for crediting the miles generated by flying on other Star Alliance carriers). Extending statuses isn't done out of courtesy (though you could argue that the airlines that rushed to extend them by 12 months, while still within the first weeks of the crisis did show a great deal of courtesy), but to avoid other sorts of issues (that would/could go as far as lawsuits). I can't even imagine them legally "getting away with it" if they don't extend the life of all status miles, existing in any type of account during March, by at the very least as long as it takes them to get the fleet back in the air.
Anyway I wouldn't want to get this discussion to turn into a "is a mile a currency?", or "what's the true monetary value of miles?" (even more difficult for status miles!) so I could agree to disagree with this serious, customer-unfriendly oversight.
