Originally Posted by Dave Noble

You were the one that stated that your travel patterns allowed for about 5% earning between now and end March. You have from 1 April 2025 to 31 Jan 2026 ( 10 months ) to accrue 1500 TPs to avoid the ignominy of dropping to Silver status. If you continue earning at least 1500 TPs in a 12 month period, the worst case is that you could end up at silver status for 2 months.

Given that you did renew Gold before 8 December, why even worry about the period between now and 31 March? If you continue to earn 1500TPs in a year, you will maintain gold status - if your patterns change such that you don't complete the earning between 1 April 2025 and 31 Jan 2026, you end up with a brief loss of gold status, but hardly valid to suggest that this change will reduce Gold Card memberships (excluding perhaps those gaming system such as by using the transition period every 2 years to earn 1500 points )