Got my future brother-in-law staying over this weekend, and he's got FD Platinum - are there any current, or previous, offers enabling one to gift some sort of status to anyone with FD (ie. I have no doubt he'd gift it to me)? He earnt it the hard way, from sounds of it - actually flies & pays full whack every week btwn. nce & ams, gets upgrades to something called (from my memory) Euro Select? Says it saves him 500 euros, but all you get is a slightly better economy seat with a newspaper and a drink, instead of paying extra.

If that's what real flyers think, rather than mileage FT junkies like myself, don't hold out much hope for this programme.