Originally Posted by
intuition
... I think
a) I do not need to fulfil the requirements by 5/11 2026 to upgrade to platinum, but by my current anniversary date 23/11 2026
b) Even if I fulfill the requiremets long before 5/11 2026 I won't be upgraded until 5/11 2026 since that is the first date the future platinum level is obtainable.
b) seems correct.
a) see below
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
It's correct that you can upgrade at any time (which then has the effect of changing your membership date). But the date given in intuition's screen shot is wrong for a number of reasons....
I'm pretty confident that the Nov. 5th 2026 date is correct today (!) and I'm also quite confident that it will start changing, eventually, after the first flight post-November 5th 2025 is finally registered to a member's account.
As you said, you can upgrade at any time. Where you didn't get it quite right is, that the gold anniversary has almost nothing to do with the deadlines in order to upgrade to platinum,
at least as long as gold is maintained, which is what I assume to be both a requirement and what anyone with platinum in their sights will be achieving anyway.
Aegean's tiers are based (with regards to upgrades) on a rolling year, counting from the oldest flight within that year! So with platinum being introduced on November 5th 2026, the first possible flight that can count towards platinum can be taken... Today!
Actually, it seems it could have also been taken yesterday because it seems, that they count 366 days for upgrading tiers, even though one should better avoid taking flights that far apart from each other, which should both count towards upgrading tiers. I also have a hunch, that the wording "until" here once again does not mean "up to and including", but rather "prior to".
Then the November 5th 2026 date will remain fixed until that segment and its tier miles expire, which will be November 6th 2026 (it will then be moved to be 365 days away from the next flight post-November 5th 2025, that the member has taken). If the member does not fly today, then tomorrow Nov. 7th the indication should change to November 6th (or 7th
) 2026 and so on. A November 23rd gold anniversary is mostly irrelevant. If you take your first post-November 5th 2025 on November 30th 2025, then the platinum's deadline will likely first be November 24th 2026 and will be changed, after you meet the requirements to retain gold, to November 29th 2026k (with the account likely reading "until 30/11/2026").
Miles and segments flown within the rolling (upgrade) year
do not expire at the current tier's anniversary, with regards to upgrading one's tier! They only expire with regards to retaining the current tier. (what I assume happens, is, that if a tier is momentarily lost and then regained, say a few days later, that the segment counter for platinum will then also be reset to 0)
Originally Posted by
intuition
... I can't help thinking this major inflation is in preparation for their eventual medium haul network. If nothing else changes and DEL is launched, the old 12k threshold could be reached (just about) on a single one-way LHR-ATH-DEL.
in line with the continuous expansion of AEGEAN's network
Originally Posted by
intuition
... a lot of flyers that eventually does 32 segments will reach the 18k before they qualify on segments.
... I also thought that the locals would pretty easily reach both 12 segs and 18k, so interesting to hear it is the 18k that is harder.
32 segments in PUT Light domestic deliver... 3200 miles
But 32 domestic segments in the very next BC, S, at the very next ticket category, Flex, deliver 19200 miles! Interesting indeed.