Originally Posted by Never Stansted

My travel pattern is roughly 12 ET flights a year (usually for work, JER-LON and back) and roughly 16 CE flights a year (usually for leisure), plus one or two long-haul trips in J or occasionally F. There was an incentive to get to Gold for a big improvement in the experience when travelling ET and a still noticeable improvement (GF, F Wing, probably row 1) when travelling CE or CW. I've just dropped to Silver this year and on my travel pattern I am struggling to see the point of it. I can go to the lounge in JER with Priority Pass, so the residual benefit of Silver becomes 6 trips to GC a year. And if I want those I can just upgrade the relevant legs to CE for about £70 and forget about chasing status which costs much more.