tmac100

Curiosity got the better of me today (Wednesday) and I called A3 in Athens on their Miles and Bonus "number". No surprise that A3 knew nada about my earlier on-line request for the missing miles and TPs! 🙄

After some searching they "found" my request and supposedly started to act on it. 😜

I will see how long this "re-activation" takes to get the missing TPs and miles ...
Edit: TPs and miles appeared The next morning (Thursday).

l380

Did something change for AC miles accrual policy?
My flight was on AC domestic economy basic - K class.
When I filed the missing miles, the message prompt says error 35 - the specific booking class is not eligible for mileage accrual.

KLouis

Nothing changed according to what's in the AC table (25%, minimum 125 miles). Why don't you call them?

NWIFlyer

As there haven't been any reports on LOT posting time since 2018, an update that these still appear to be extremely quick. Between 23rd - 25th March I flew LHR-WAW-VNO-LCY in Z class.

When I checked late afternoon on 25th, my LHR-WAW flight on 23rd and LHR-VNO on 24th (landing at VNO at 1am on 25th) had already appeared. My VNO-LCY, landing at 5.45pm, appeared by the morning of 26th - so it looks like transactions are crediting within 24h of flight departure.

tmac100

My M&B anniversary date is July 17th. By late June I will still need about 3648 - (2 x 1058) or 1532 Tier miles - depending on what exactly TAP gives me for my paid for in advance Bus class flight (LIS -MAN). On July 11th I have an AC Bus class flight (YWG - YYC) which supposedly will give 2X 748 Tier miles to A3.

Two questions:
1. Should I pay for the extra 500 Tier miless needed to maintain *G, assuming the AC miles will be according to airmilescalculator.com, or
2. Buy a lot more Tier miles with A3 to make sure?

i suppose I could wait until July 14th or 15th at the latest, but I don't want to risk my *G.

giorginho

I can't provide any advice regarding your other questions, but you can purchase miles even on the very last day of your tier's year. If the 17th is the indication in your account under "to retain your tier you need...." then you're good even on the 17th (just make sure the 17th isn't the date printed on your gold card, as that would be the 366th day of your "year" and purchasing miles on that day won't do the trick for you - I assume in your case you card has the 18th printed on it).

Also, a data point from (very) recent first-hand experience is, that if you purchase (or credit, for example via claim missing miles) the "important" miles between 0:0X-ish a.m. and prior to 2a.m. Greek time, then the tier will get updated on the same (working) day. It seems like there's an automated system-wide check anywhere between 2a.m. and 4a.m. (Greek time) each (working) day that sets tiers to what they should be, according to what was credited up until that time.

tmac100

The card sez 16/07/2024.
So, I just bought 1500 extra Tier miles. No point in risking my status. 🙄
I just noted that they have already been credited to my M&B account. So, I expect to be safe as *G for another year.
Thank you, giorginho, for your helpful advice.