headingwest

Another 2 flights cancelled! If they are not going to extend status, perhaps they should credit Status Miles for flights cancelled! That would cost them nothing!

yauee

Agree with you the lockdown are pain. Especially for us who encounter international travel lockdown since March 2020. Will definitely concern about this starting from 25th May 2021 - 25th May 2022 requalification. .

I find intra-europe earning rate are actually much better than intra-asia, I could be wrong as Asia base flyer.

KATERGOO

Same here. Return trip from Paris to Athens in April. Both flights canceled. Not even an email from Aegean to inform about the cancellation. It makes me crazy. It's just like a year ago. Rebooked for May. Hopefully, flights won't be cancelled again. I need the miles to requlify for gold status.

djjaguar64

I am booked for May will cancel as its not going to be possible for travel, vaccinations and countries not ready for tourism. Sad but unfortunate.

headingwest

My guess is that they disabled the auto-send of notifications to avoid overloading the system (similar to what most airlines did last March). I have 7 bookings affected, and the first e-mail came this morning.

They have really made quite dramatic changes, so I guess it will take a little time for all notifications to filter through.

Carpacchio

Oh yes - my requalification flight in April is now also severely disturbed: the flight back from Athens is now 30 mins later (which is ok).
But the outbound flight with connection to Samos is now not possible anymore. And the flight from Samos to Athens would be 2 hours earlier now.
Received info for the return flight, but nothing yet for the other 2 (all separate tickets).

Plus - since it was booked with vouchers, I can only get vouchers back

mgo72

And ....downgraded to silver!

14000 miles and 4 qualifying flights cancelled in may.

romans

that sucks well I don’t believe in any other status extend this time unfortunately, I hope I am wrong as almost everytime

:D!

So NWIFlyer and any other UK people - if travelling for leisure is permitted on 17 May, and there is no status extension, will you be doing a quick trip to Greece before the deadline? I might do if some of the hassle is removed, probably not if 2 COVID tests are required on return which I expect will likely still be the case. If it happens to be a week of rain in the UK at that time I wouldn't mind self-isolating at home too , otherwise I will be travelling around the UK.

powergean

I will do the other way:-) From Ath-London march 1 and back the next day. I will take 8 000 + miles for it. But i have to buy the test kit for 210 and stay 7 days home in greece. I was thinking hard about to do it or not....but like thes i am oke untill 2023 march with the gold . I hope Aegean will not go to bankraupt and i do thes for nothing:-))))

NWIFlyer

I’m in the slightly fortunate position that one of my uber-cheap March BA flights on the LHR-ATH part was cancelled, and therefore I can move to May for zero cost - otherwise it would have been much more expensive in J. Ditto my internal OA flight (although the ‘move at no cost’ option would have worked as well).

There’s clearly still very considerable risk around the 17th May date, so my plan is to fly to ATH on the last weekend, most likely 22nd, then collect my two OA internals on 23rd before completing what was supposed to be the original holiday in Athens.

If that goes wrong - and there’s still a reasonably high chance it will given a lot of data stars have to align in both the UK and Greece - then there’s not really any more I can do to paint a picture to A3 as to just how difficult it’s been to qualify when asking for an exception.

I’ll think about the potential test costs nearer the time - the outlay for MrsNWI and me is not inconsiderable, and it’s frustrating that I’ll also likely be taking a lateral flow test for work, but a couple of hundred pounds for each of us to re-qualify is probably small beer compared to our usual annual travel costs.

GUWonder

I have several more months to wait to see what Aegean does about status acquisition/retention--related promotions/extensions, but either way I'm pretty sure I'll still end up with an easily renewed A3*G this year.

karns

Like most of the people posting in this thread, I am very concerned about requalifying for gold, come May 2021. I have no hope of getting 4 AE flights until well after that, or, really, any travel at all until at least late summer.
Is there nothing we can do to convince Aegean to extend gold status, at least until November, which would be the year that most major airlines extended their gold members?
I can't stand to lose my gold status, but am powerless at the moment to move forward on any travel.

Chiller3333

I need to earn another 20k miles (of 8k+4) till December and am hoping that I'll be able to do so with my usual trips.
As I mentioned earlier the real "problem" in making this happen is that my usual mileage-optimized routings aren't available.
Flying between Europe and the US a fair bit I used to take SAS quite often in PE and C (alternatively AC in C would be a very good option).
Being mostly on direct flights these days I'm basically capped at 100% in UA P and won't get anything in LH P.
Am considering flying one leg in LH/LX A later this year to make up for it (and enjoy First class obviously).

I'm desparately waiting for LH's summer schedule to be finalized so I can figure out how to make this happen :P
Good luck everyone, May is so soon unfortunately. I do consider myself lucky having the year end in December.

GUWonder

We may again see some airlines more or less sell *G status without a flying requirement. It may even turn out cheaper than flying for *G status.

Maybe A3 will get int the business of selling *G status? I would be surprised if they haven't considered an idea like that.