Originally Posted by Tafflyer

If you fly LH Group then get an Amex Platinum card. This gives you LH Business Lounge when on an LHG Eco ticket and SEN lounge when on an LHG business ticket. No need for A3*G then. Indeed, despite having A3*G myself, I often enter the LH lounge using Amex, especially if on a P-class business ticket that credits zero to A3. I already credit those to UA, where redemptions are better, and use Amex for SEN lounge entry. The use-case of A3*G was already much reduced when flying LHG airlines in the lowest business class P fares.

Were the mileage thresholds for A3*G too low and unsustainable for the airline? Probably. But, but only a small mileage increase to 18,000 yet a tripling of the A3 flight requirement to 12 seems excessive, especially as the marginal revenue for that is questionable when you can buy Eco Light tickets for under €30 sometimes. I think this is just a way of "tilting" membership towards Greek residents, probably under pressure from the ever more greedy Lufthansa Group.