Hi all,

I'm trying to get to Gold. My account shows under "How to Upgrade my tier" that I have until 01/07/2025 to meet the requirement. I have a A3 flight on 01/07 that pushes me over the line. Would flying on 01/07 count or is my last flying date on 30/06?

Thank you

Based on what you have written, you have until 01/07/2025 to qualify.

Note however that flights taken on 01/07/2025 will not post in time so you will first lose status. You may - after the flight of the 1 July posts - have to contact the Miles+Bonus customer service to have your account corrected.

My card shows that it is valid until 24/11. From experience I know that re-qualification needs to happen before 24/11 as midday on the 24th I always get the email saying that I have renewed my status. So if your (digital) card shows 1/7 I would expect that the flight needs to be credited before that date.

The date on the card is always one day after the date you are informed you need to accumulate your Tier Miles by:



In my case, my tier will be re-evaluated again on 24/05/2026 on the basis of flights taken up to (and including) 23/05/2026 {though again with the proviso that flights taken on that last day of the qualification period are unlikely to have actually been posted to the account when they run the algorithm on the expiry date of the card}

I've never taken flights on the last qualification date (for me: 23 May) but I have taken flights on the first qualification date (for me: 24 May) and I can guarantee that flights taken on 24 May - the day of expiry of my status cards, and the day they re-run the algorithm - have always counted for the "new" year.

I read the OP's post as that he/they have a card that expires on 02/07/2025 and their Miles+Bonus account tells them that "To maintain my tier I still need: Up to 01/07/2025 XXXX Tier Miles " but maybe the OP will wish to clarify this point.

In any case, the OP is advised that it is always risky to leave (re-)qualification so late; if something comes up and you are unable to travel on this particular date (imagine, for example, a wildcat strike on the day of travel), you have no further opportunity to secure your status.

I actually read it as it was posted (very clearly):
"I'm trying to get to Gold. My account shows under "How to Upgrade my tier" that I have until 01/07/2025 to meet the requirement."
I think you understood it correctly the first time (there's no "card expiring" or anything", this just concerns the upgrade to gold, not a renewal of silver), however I'm afraid the feedback you gave in that post was also not correct.
Here's why: This is what a silver account looks like:

The expiration date on the actual card is 22/03/2026.
So far so good, you were both correct in that comparing the card's expiration date with the deadline for meeting *that same card's* criteria, you get a difference of 1 calendar day.

However, like I said, this is not the subject here. The subject is upgrading from silver to gold. Which is a rolling date (year) depending on the date of the oldest flight, which counts towards upgrading, + 365 days.
Here's where I think Aegean's IT has messed it up badly for people playing the system on its very edge:
As you can see, the "how to upgrade my tier" part also has a date (deadline) under it. This is displayed next to the "to maintain my tier, I need:" in almost the exact same way, but with the not so obvious difference, that the former reads "until" (date) while the latter "up to" (date).

The logical conclusion is, that whatever is valid for the latter deadline is also valid for the former deadline.
The problem is, in the aforementioned example the first flight that counts towards reaching gold was taken on 15/07/2024!
This means, that the 15/07/2025 will be the 366th day, which means, that by then, the tier miles from the flight taken on 15/07/2024 will have expired and will get added to the amount required to upgrade to gold.

The greek text on that page reads "μέχρι και" for retaining silver and just "μέχρι" for upgrading to gold. The "και" in this case is (how I assume Aegean means it) the logical AND (so it's more like "up to AND including" whatever date is shown next to it), whereas the "until" part means "not including" whatever date is stated.

Of course this is a very bad way to communicate a deadline, the language leaves room for interpretation, the fact that the almost identical information right next it regarding renewals includes an extra day is very misleading, but, again, this is not based on my interpretation of this information, but on the fact that tier miles expire after the 365th day, and the 365th day in the OP's case is June 30th, as I am pretty sure (that's something harry0233 could confirm) he has credited tier miles on July 1st 2024.

Thank you for the great explanation giorginho . It is indeed the case that:

1. My card renewal date doesn't match upgrade tier date just like in your screenshot (which is not part of the inquiry), and,
2. I had a flight on 1 July 2024

For me, the confusion also stems from the same "12-month period" used in Aegean Pass, in which my pass is valid from 01/01/2025 to 01/01/2026 (inclusive). if this is consistent, then Aegen doesn't count the last date, and I have up to inclusively 1 July 2025 to qualify.

The problem is Aegean doesn't have daily flight from DUB so I couldn't move my trip earlier. I sent them an email and let's see what they say.

The Tier Miles for a flight taken on 1 July 2024 will expire after a year; so when you add Tier Miles for a flight taken on 1 July 2025, the tier miles for the flight taken on 1 July 2024 will already be gone.

If getting to Gold for you requires the Tier miles earned on a flight taken on 1 July 2024 AND ALSO Tier Miles earned from a flight to be taken on 1 July 2025, then I don't think that will work - they are more than a year apart (not "within 12 months")

Do you actually just need the Tier Miles? (In case you didn't know, and in case you haven't already done so, as a Silver member you can buy up to 2,000 Tier Miles during your membership year, though perhaps this isn't enough) Or do you actually also need to have an extra A3 flight (to bring your Gold qualification threshold down from 70,000 Tier Miles to 24,000 Tier Miles when you have had 4 A3/OA flights included)?

As you already saw with a tier "card" and tier miles, depending on the type of Aegean's "product" you may have different deadlines and durations (so a silver or gold tier card will be valid for 366 days, at least in theory, so even if you miss out on meeting the tier retention criteria within 365 days, you will still enjoy the perks of your tier for 1 additional day). So it could be the same with the pass (a 366-day validity, instead of a 365-day one).

Now here's the important thing: How many miles did you earn on 1 July 2024 and how many are you expecting to receive on 1 July 2025? How many miles are you missing right now (and, like Irishguy asked: Do you still need to credit one flight with Aegean or not)? The point being: If you are due to gather more miles this July 1st, than you did last year, then you should first check out if you're still going to reach gold without the miles from the flight 1 year ago and if the result is negative, then you will at least need to buy less miles on or after July 1st 2025 than you do now (the caveat being, that you will only get very few of those miles to count towards requalifying for gold next year) OR you can check when your NEXT flight was last year after July 1st and how many miles that one has credited and when you next flight THIS year is (after the one on 1 July of course) and how many miles this will give you. If it is earlier than the "next" flight you took in 2024, then there's a high chance you will make it to gold with that flight (or perhaps it could be easier to move that flight to a slightly earlier date to get it to be less than 366 days after that "next" flight of last year and get those miles on top of the ones from last year).

Remember that there is no fixed "qualifying year" for gold and that the deadline is always moving to 365 days after the oldest flight, which still has "active" tier miles.
If you're already that close (just "one flight away"), then I believe you have good chances of making it to gold soon after 1 July, however if that was a long-hauled flight, which has credited many thousands of miles, then OK, of course it will be much harder (than it is now).