Originally Posted by cova
Top tier ued to be Gold with Silver & Bronze below. The new naming scheme eliminated the Bronze term and made Platinum the top tier followed by Gold and Silver. (must have been earned - no bump ups in level or near misses counted and had to be consecutive years).
The top tier was 60K EQM, then around early 1990's was reduced to 50K. OF course it is now 75K.
Having qualified for Infinite Elite, I never did fly enough miles to qualify to be a real Platinum, I'm just an Old Gold.