Just to simplify this, if you have 25,000 paid flown miles by, say, 6/30/2004, you will be "promoted" to silver in early 7/2004 & will be silver for the rest of 2004, through 2/28/2005 & will qualify for 2005 silver, covering the period 3/1/2005-2/28/2006. Hope this helps & welcome to FT.