mabramovich

I don't understand? How does 4K/year lead to Gold status? You get 1K for signing up, then you could credit 3K that year to get to *S, and then you still need 16K the following year to get Star Gold, right?

Also, I clearly failed because *S doesn't give you free bags throughout Star Alliance. Obviously I suck.

intuition

It is a typo. PVDtoDEL meant silver, naturally.

PVDtoDEL

Yep, I meant *S. My bad.
Yeah, *S only gives free bags on USA based carriers as far as I know.

Egor

From my understanding if you want yout blue status not to expire you only need 1 flight every 365*3 days - same as for Gold. Those 4k status miles you earned to get blue will never expire unless account is closed - which is done if there is no activity for 36 months

PVDtoDEL

Huh - then we have different understandings. All miles expire after 1 year in a blue account.

johnmcl75

I cannot seem to register at the Miles&Bonus page. Can one of you please check and let me know if you get the same problem?

Thanks
john

MSPeconomist

To clarify, the 4000 status miles used to become *Silver or Blue are deducted from your status miles balance when you achieve this level.

There was also some discussion here regarding the case where Gold is not then reached within a year and whether the requirement then changes from 16000 to 20000 status miles for Gold. Unfortunately, I don't remember the conclusions about the fine points of timing.

iamife

I'm looking into geting A3*G but would like to know how many miles I would get from HEL-LAX-HEL on economy & would it give enough to make it to gold? Will economy even count at all?

Egor

Well, they were not in schedule for expiration while I had blue status. But all miles in excess of that 4k do really expire

MSPeconomist

It depends on the fare class. The Aegean website gives a bunch of tables of earnings on various *A carriers by fare class.

bryceb

I have an interesting data point. I recently flew 3100 miles (first miles to my account after initial 1000 enrollment miles) and when the miles posted to my account it showed I have 4100 tier miles and 3100 miles are set to expire in 1 year. It's not showing me as Blue anywhere when I log in or on the print card option. Perhaps this will change after a few days. I'm still waiting for my outbound miles to post to my account.

NWIFlyer

In my case, from flights taken on 1st March the miles posted on 5th March and the status changed to Blue overnight, being updated on 6th March.

I no longer have to ability to print a member card - only request a replacement.

Somewhere between a US flight on 8th March and a BD flight on 17th March this propagated through the *A database because my boarding passes starting showing A3*S.

bryceb

Looks like I spoke too soon. My status changed to Blue overnight and my points set to expire changed to 100 (keeping 4000). I'm happy to see the system working as advertised.

Now I just have to wait for my retro claim points to show up.

pkfk13

Oh Boy - here goes.....well it certainly seems to depend on which Dragon you encounter with AC. Here is my recent experience:

Leaving YOW-YYZ-FRA-ARN with confirmed upgrade on the YYZ-FRA portion.
Checkin online - get bag tagged at YOW, and then ask about revising FF Plan to credit the miles to A3. (I am Elite on AP, but new to A3).

- the checkin agent puts her hand on the *G priority bag tag and informs me that if I want to change the program I am crediting my miles to, then I lose the priority sticker for my bags - and BTW there is a pilots job action today - so the connection is gonna be really tight at YYZ.

- I feel like I have no option - so say yes keep it on AP to keep the priority tag on the bag.

- flight is delayed - lots of pilots phoned in sick....so I go to the MLL.

- while waiting there - I ask about revising my FFP to credit my filght miles to A3.....the agent there says yes no problem - we will cancel your J upgrade, and seat you in Y....do you still want to change the accumulation to another *A partner ?

- this is not a great option - so no - I leave it on AP....(this I can agree with since I am getting an upgrade, and not just getting luggage handling based on last yea's flying).

- over to FRA.....at the LH lounge, waiting to connect to ARN, I ask the person at the desk if I can update my FFP....surprise !! NO Problem.....give her the new number, she updates and prints new boarding pass, and doesn't threaten to kick me out of the lounge (even though I am there based on my prevous year's flying).

So....switching programs is not that easy....and the agents seem to make up the rules on the fly.

My experience so far...will see how it goes for the trip home...

VanquishShadow

is there any requirement to fly on Aegean metal to qualify for Blue or Gold? If I just fly entirely on *A flights but not Aegean, will I still qualify?