Originally Posted by
harry0233
For me, the confusion also stems from the same "12-month period" used in Aegean Pass, in which my pass is valid from 01/01/2025 to 01/01/2026 (inclusive). if this is consistent, then Aegen doesn't count the last date, and I have up to inclusively 1 July 2025 to qualify.
As you already saw with a tier "card" and tier miles, depending on the type of Aegean's "product" you may have different deadlines and durations (so a silver or gold tier card will be valid for 366 days, at least in theory, so even if you miss out on meeting the tier retention criteria within 365 days, you will still enjoy the perks of your tier for 1 additional day). So it could be the same with the pass (a 366-day validity, instead of a 365-day one).
Now here's the important thing: How many miles did you earn on 1 July 2024 and how many are you expecting to receive on 1 July 2025? How many miles are you missing right now (and, like Irishguy asked: Do you still need to credit one flight with Aegean or not)? The point being: If you are due to gather more miles this July 1st, than you did last year, then you should first check out if you're still going to reach gold without the miles from the flight 1 year ago and if the result is negative, then you will at least need to buy less miles on or after July 1st 2025 than you do now (the caveat being, that you will only get very few of those miles to count towards requalifying for gold next year) OR you can check when your NEXT flight was last year after July 1st and how many miles that one has credited and when you next flight THIS year is (after the one on 1 July of course) and how many miles this will give you. If it is earlier than the "next" flight you took in 2024, then there's a high chance you will make it to gold with that flight (or perhaps it could be easier to move that flight to a slightly earlier date to get it to be less than 366 days after that "next" flight of last year and get those miles on top of the ones from last year).
Remember that there is no fixed "qualifying year" for gold and that the deadline is always moving to 365 days after the oldest flight, which still has "active" tier miles.
If you're already that close (just "one flight away"), then I believe you have good chances of making it to gold soon after 1 July, however if that was a long-hauled flight, which has credited many thousands of miles, then OK, of course it will be much harder (than it is now).