Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
There are two groups. Among recent qualifiers, a lot are on FT (plus one notorious lurker) and I can't think of any who are not. The other group, once they get their status, start to ease off on flying, stop earning so many Avios and GUFs (TPs) and gently fade away..... If you don't soak in a lot of TPs and Avios, even though they aren't needed for qualification, then the benefits of GGLfl are of questionable value.
With respect, I'd push back gently on the 'questionable value' part. I don't fly any where near as much as I used to - perhaps only one or two returns each month - but the CCR, support from the Concorde Team and some of the other benefits such as jokers are still very valuable to me. I earned the GGLFL level organically - have never done a TP run, and had already qualified in 2013 (?) when the Lifetime things were launched. To me it has been a highly appreciated gift as at that point I was just about to drop to Silver, having been at least Gold since Gold was first created as a tier way back when.