Originally Posted by
ELAL
Will having a baby next year help prolong another year?
Yes!
Originally Posted by
Aspz
"You can upgrade from Silver tier to Gold, with the existing rules policy until 04/11/2026." - So I should be good to go with another 24k + 4 segments after april to get to gold, as long as everything is in by November?
Yes, prior to Nov. 5th 2026 you should be able to make it to gold with the old criteria. Since reaching gold sets your renewal date, this would then be before Nov. 5th, so it should work.
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
A "soft landing" implies that you are eased down a level.
To go from Platinum (4th level) to Silver (2nd level) would therefore not appear to be a soft landing at all;...
I'm not sure what you mean by running Platinum "parallel" to Gold; Platinum is a new level above Gold. Just like you can move up from Blue to Silver and up from Silver to Gold, in future people will be able to move up from Gold to Platinum. You're moving up (or down) a single-spine ladder; there is no parallelism involved.
Except I never actually called going from platinum to silver a "soft landing"!
Originally Posted by
giorginho
Will platinum members "soft-land" on the gold tier, when not able to retain platinum? Or do they go straight to silver, if during their platinum year they don't even gather 18k + 12x (for gold retention)?
I also assumed it would go from platinum to gold, but since no official info has been provided, I just considered the thought of the platinum being "uncoupled" from the regular tier progression. The wording is "upgrade to platinum", but there's still not a clear indication, that you have to have been gold in the first place (this will 99,9% be mentioned in the T&Cs, whenever they get updated to include platinum, which they still don't).
Originally Posted by
giorginho
Actually, they've ever so slightly increased the gold benefits (2000 birthday miles and -50% on extra legroom, @headingwest free standard seat selection was already a benefit).
Must correct this, free standard seat selection was from Flex and above, so I guess golds can now select any standard seat even when booking light.... Which is exactly what every single member was able to do for free anyway up to 1-2 years ago, when Aegean went FR on that
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