Originally Posted by
fifty_two
one thing to know , i heard feedback of people who travelled through amsterdam on skyteam , and got over the threshold for gold/platinum in the middle of their trips . So to access the KL lounges , they went to the reception , asked agents to do the needful and trigger the status change manually rather than waiting for the systems to do their jobs
Besides free luggage and priority checkin desks , there are no real benefits for silver anymore , however its still useful and worthy and easy to reach and maintain
I've done that a couple of times as I moved up and down the status levels years ago. It works fine, they are happy to do it and it only takes a few seconds.
Remember, there might be some new Accor or other XP offers to drive business again. We just need to stay on the ball.