Originally Posted by
Teatime132
Yes, I cannot count how many times I read and re-read the website and the news;
I guess the topic is as following: Right now on Jan 14 2025 I have 300XP which were carried over from last year. Let's say I finish with 460XP on 31.12.2025.
The issue basically is:
is the SURPLUS 460XP, or is the surplus 160XP?
According to the AF agent explanations, the surplus is 460XP and they will deduct 300XP to maintain status, all remaining 160XP are not multiple and will be forfeited.
The forum here tries to explain, no, the 300XP will be deducted and the surplus is 160XP, which is less than the max surplus of 300XP which can be carried over, so I will have status and start 1.1.2026 with 160XP.
However, this example I have not been able to find CONFIRMED by an official representative from FB. Ben Lipsey's scenarios in the thread were all different.
The self made Example 1 of 410XP and starting with 110XP was also user-made.
There's really nothing more to add after Maestro Ramen's previous reply - but let me just say you that you are overthinking things.
And you've already passed the "difficult" part - you've already been transitioned from the "old" rule (no cap on XP rollovers) to the "new" rule (there is now a cap on XP rollovers).
And it's really very, very simple.
Here's what the wiki above says:
You've renewed Platinum enough times now to know, and understand, that renewing platinum involves the deduction of 300XP at the end of each completed year.
That hasn't changed.
You've renewed Platinum enough times now to know that after they've deducted the 300XP at the end of the year, and have XPs left over, you get a "rollover".
All that has changed is that, instead of allowing any number of XPs to be rolled over, going forward it is now capped at a maximum of 300XP that can be rolled over.
The one-off transistion arrangment - whereby "blocks" of 300XP were further counted as extra years - will not be repeated again for any member at the end of any future membership years. This was merely a one-off transitional arrangement such that those who had amounted large rollover amounts - which is no longer allowed - do not completely lose out with this new change. But, going forward, the absolute maximum amount any Platinum can start their new membership year with is 300XP, no matter how much greater than 600XP their end-of-year XP balance actually was.
I'm not sure where the confusion comes in. Perhaps it's in some way related to the fact that they chose the same number (300) for both of these separate steps.
But it's actually quite simple.
You need, by the end of the year, to have at least 300XPs to maintain Platinum into your next year. This has always* been the case; this remains the case; nothing has changed.
Anything remaining in your account after they've deducted the 300XP to pay for a new year of Platinum is rolled over, but now they have introduced a cap on how many can be rolled over from one year to the next; the number they decided to use was - conveniently enough, or apparently confusingly for some - also 300XP.
If you can just understand and internalise that mechanism - first you have to requalify (for the cost of 300XP), then you get a rollover (if any are left, but now subject to a maximum of 300XP rollover) then you don't actually need to query anyone, or get stuck on specific meanings of words like "surplus", if you just understand the mechanism.
As a Platinum, first you must requalify (for a deduction of 300XP), then they check if you qualify for a rollover (now capped to 300max).
*since 1 April 2018, when Flying Blue abandoned Level Miles and Level Sectors as the means of (re-)qualifying for status in favour of Experience Points (XPs)