12 month status extension for Gold card holders rolling out - Silver awaiting info
Feb 13, 2022, 10:28 pm
#511
Join Date: Nov 2016
Programs: Nectar Card
Posts: 1,092
One of the reasons some people on my side are holding off on crediting flights to A3 to do the re-qualification thing is that they aren't sure that the future Star Alliance flight schedules and their future travel is going to be such that it makes sense to doing much of anything to stick to A3*G status at this point.
If A3 hadn't gotten out of the business of providing what used to be a de facto limitless period of A3*G status for active accounts, this conversation wouldn't even be taking place.
If A3 hadn't gotten out of the business of providing what used to be a de facto limitless period of A3*G status for active accounts, this conversation wouldn't even be taking place.
Let us know if you get an extension!
Feb 14, 2022, 5:04 am
#512
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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It's a mix from using *G status from other airlines, to leaving Star Alliance carriers overall, to buying lounge membership, to just picking whatever premium cabin flight route makes sense independent of program and/or program status, to just stop caring about FFP as a significant consideration. The net result is that A3 will likely see fewer flights credited to the A3 accounts from them, and that is money that will not get back to flowing to A3 as it would otherwise have done later this year and next.
Feb 15, 2022, 10:36 am
#513
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: CHA
Posts: 151
There was an extended period where travel just wasn't a financial option and no clear timeframe for it to return. When it became viable once again I had no difficulty regaining Silver and the +4 flights for Gold with a trip to Greece a couple of months prior to the pandemic starting. I was still short of miles (the opposite of now) and expecting to coast on the extensions for a while, but stumbled into enough domestic partner miles to make Gold anyway in late 2020. Have been slowly accreting miles here & there since. I wasn't flying anyway so Blue status wasn't impacting me. And I have lounge passes through a credit card which made travel nicer once I did start flying again but hadn't regained Gold yet.
Feb 25, 2022, 12:25 pm
#517
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Feb 25, 2022, 1:23 pm
#518
Moderator: Aegean Miles+Bonus
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: AMS / ATH
Programs: AFKL Plat, A3 Gold
Posts: 7,339
I'm fully expecting the extensions to not last until end of May when a large group of elites will have to re-qualify. Schedules have been loaded, flights are operating and most travel restrictions eliminated. I'd expect them to require elites to re-qualify through the use of the lower tier thresholds.
Feb 28, 2022, 6:50 am
#523
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 1,313
I thought there were cases (last year at around the same time?) where Aegean extended status even after the requalification deadlines (?), as they decided to grant extensions... I vividly remember comments from members who had even purchased tier miles from Aegean in order to retain status and got refunds after those retro-extensions.
Feb 28, 2022, 7:47 am
#524
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: GVA
Programs: A3 *G, LX *G, AF *S
Posts: 761
Feb 28, 2022, 6:58 pm
#525
Join Date: Nov 2016
Programs: Nectar Card
Posts: 1,092