Originally Posted by
ekgoldmember
Are you sure about this? I was upgraded from Economy Flex to First Class twice already this year. The second time, I asked the lounge supervisor who had upgraded me why. He told me I was a grade one gold member. I never knew what that meant, and I still don’t even though I posted about this a few months ago..
You’ve said it before, but you (and one other person who said something similar but slightly different) appear to be the only people with that experience.
There’s another whole and holding body of evidence that suggests it is as quoted by gorba (staff saying so, and anecdotal evidence over years on this site). Certainly amongst my team at the office (a handful of plats maybe two dozen golds), the iO>plats>flex+>flex>saver rule seems to hold.