Originally Posted by
ISTFlyer
To be honest, I gave up looking upstairs at the Exclusive Lounge area when I visit the Miles&Smiles Lounge at IST since every time I visited their post-COVID, there was zero ( I mean zero ) progress on the construction so unless there is a very recent development I doubt that would happen.
However also as
hfly mentioned earlier at different threads regarding lifetime status and some TK executive's insights, I might see that coming.
I am only making a pure speculation but I hope that they don't decrease the validity of status from two years to one year or anything similar which would be horrible.
Increasing the number of levels would be bonkers. Either enhancing the top level, or doing away with it, would make more sense.
I can see them tidying up the silliness, making it a simple two-year qualification, or (gulp!) a single-year one. I could also understand them reforming the E+ upgrade voucher, which might mean simplifying the programme by reducing status levels.
The upgrade vouchers must create headaches with tension between revenue department, the marketing team and the agents who have to administer the haphazard scheme.