Originally Posted by
edmm
That is my worry too. I have been Elite a very long time and have enough banked years to make me effectively Elite-for-Life, and Mrs edmm has some banked years too. We don't want to lose that, and Air NZ have a habit of bringing in "enhancements" that leave everyone worse off.
These changes to loyalty have been promised for years, and my expectation is that they will take a lot more time to come in, and be a huge disappointment- another unattainable higher level, and more dilution of benefits for Elites. After many years of hoping I have given up on ever getting anything decent from Air NZ in exchange for long term loyalty.
To gut Elite banked years will be like swinging a sledgehammer through all the goodwills - I don't think they will be foolish enough to do that. What I can see is grandfathering it when they either move away from this concept completely or introduce lifetime status instead.