Originally Posted by irishguy28

Your membership year and qualification period has not changed. As you have been platinum since the "old" Flying Blue, your membership period remains aligned to the calendar year: 1 January to 31 December inclusive.

The only thing that has changed is the abolition of physical Flying Blue cards. It was the "delay" required to complete each of the tasks (assessing each member's new status level; manufacturing a new card for each member; mailing these cards out to all members) that required them to previously add a "grace period" onto the physical card's expiry date, to bridge you through this otherwise awkward period between the end of the previous membership year, and the receipt of the following membership year's status card.

However, your new digital membership card no longer shows an extra "grace period" for which - in the physical era - status was granted for an extra period beyond the end of the membership year. As the membership card can now be instantly generated/downloaded, and there is no longer a need to manufacture a large batch of physical cards to be sent out to all status members after the end of each member's qualification period when it is known what their next status level will be, it is no longer necessary to issue cards with these extra 3 months of status to cover this period where your old membership year had ended, but you had not yet received your new physical card.