Platinum for Life
Apr 6, 2014, 4:16 am
#226
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Paris, France
Programs: Flying Blue (LTPE) All (Gold)
Posts: 1,519
...If I first qualified in 2005 then if I would qualify again in 2014, it would mean that I have qualified for 10 consecutive years, and I would have maintained Plat status for 10 consecutive years from Dec 2005 to Dec 2015, which would mean that I would be LTPE starting Jan 2016, without having to qualify for Plat status in calendar year 2015..
It is not necessary to qualify again in 2015.
Apr 6, 2014, 8:51 am
#227
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Amsterdam
Programs: FB PFL; LH SEN; Qatar Gold; Marriott Plat; IHG Plat; HHonors Gold; Avis Pres; Hertz 5*
Posts: 16
Apr 6, 2014, 3:32 pm
#229
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Amsterdam
Programs: FB PFL; LH SEN; Qatar Gold; Marriott Plat; IHG Plat; HHonors Gold; Avis Pres; Hertz 5*
Posts: 16
Apr 9, 2014, 8:05 am
#230
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Commuting between AMS, CDG and IAH
Programs: FB LTPE, hhonors diamond, hertz 5*, Thalysthecard Platinium, A-club Silver, IHG Platinum
Posts: 521
Just got a "Save the Date" invite for a special and exclusive Platinum for Life event on Tuesday June 17th. More details to be provided in the post..
Signed by Harm Kreulen, Director KLM Nederland
Anyone else going?
Signed by Harm Kreulen, Director KLM Nederland
Anyone else going?
Apr 9, 2014, 1:34 pm
#231
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Paris, France
Programs: Flying Blue (LTPE) All (Gold)
Posts: 1,519
I made a dream... it was also available in France signed by the new AF manager
Apr 9, 2014, 3:26 pm
#232
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Commuting between AMS, CDG and IAH
Programs: FB LTPE, hhonors diamond, hertz 5*, Thalysthecard Platinium, A-club Silver, IHG Platinum
Posts: 521
Apr 10, 2014, 4:17 am
#233
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 14,352
Johan
Apr 11, 2014, 3:10 am
#235
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Programs: FB Plat for Life, HHonors Gold
Posts: 195
I assume that was a targeted mailing aimed at LTPEs resident in the Netherlands only? I have a Dutch mailing address, but they never invite me to anything. Years ago they did send me a special Christmas offer: I could pick up a free travel pillow at any Hästens store. I went to one in Sweden, where they had never heard of KLM or free pillows, so that was obiviously a Dutch-only special. In the spirit of true customer service, they gave me a pillow anyway.
Johan
Johan
Apr 11, 2014, 3:52 am
#236
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Seat 1A, Juice pretty much everywhere, Mucci des Coins Exotiques
Posts: 34,339
Me too finally. It still says that I started in 2005 on the FB launch date, but I don't care. I have heard from somewhere that FB is going to fix a lot of these PFL IT issues for next year. So those of you who will hit your 10 years in 2015 or later shouldn't have all these difficulties.
Apr 11, 2014, 8:59 am
#237
Join Date: Dec 2009
Programs: FB-LTPE
Posts: 506
Apr 12, 2014, 12:30 am
#238
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: RTM
Programs: FB Platinum Life | BA Gold | TK Elite | IHG Platinum | Club Carlson Silver | Marriott Gold
Posts: 26
I received the invite as well and plan to go if my agenda allows. Kind of looking forward to it.
Apr 17, 2014, 9:21 am
#239
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: CDG
Programs: VISA Infinite, AmEx Platinum, Flying Blue Platinum for Life, Hertz 5*, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 44
Reading what I thought were confusing threads, I gave airfrance.fr a try this morning, asking on line about my specifics, Platinum since 11/2005, and please confirm when I would qualify as For Life.
Stunningly, a documented reply came through a couple hours later, which I would like to quote : "...Cher Monsieur,
Nous vous remercions pour votre message du 17 avril 2014.
Vous accéderez au statut Platinum à vie après 10 années consécutives d'adhésion au niveau le plus élevé, c'est-à-dire à la date du 26 septembre 2014.
Dès que vous remplirez ces conditions, vous recevrez automatiquement une lettre de confirmation au moment du renouvellement annuel de votre carte, c'est-à-dire fin mars 2015 ..."TRANSLATING into " Thanks for your message dated April 17. You will qualify as Platinum for Life after 10 years of qualifying to the highest tier, that is from September 26, 2014. As early as you qualify, you will receive a confirmation letter at the moment you should get your new card, that would be late March 2015".
Good news, as I have cut the travel a lot and would not requalify this year.
Stunningly, a documented reply came through a couple hours later, which I would like to quote : "...Cher Monsieur,
Nous vous remercions pour votre message du 17 avril 2014.
Vous accéderez au statut Platinum à vie après 10 années consécutives d'adhésion au niveau le plus élevé, c'est-à-dire à la date du 26 septembre 2014.
Dès que vous remplirez ces conditions, vous recevrez automatiquement une lettre de confirmation au moment du renouvellement annuel de votre carte, c'est-à-dire fin mars 2015 ..."TRANSLATING into " Thanks for your message dated April 17. You will qualify as Platinum for Life after 10 years of qualifying to the highest tier, that is from September 26, 2014. As early as you qualify, you will receive a confirmation letter at the moment you should get your new card, that would be late March 2015".
Good news, as I have cut the travel a lot and would not requalify this year.
Jun 3, 2014, 3:11 am
#240
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: AMS
Programs: FB plat for life
Posts: 316
How many LTPEs in NL - or total ?
On a recent flight we found to be 3 LTPE's seated on the same row and we were wondering how exceptional or not that was.
One of the 3 mentioned there are only 500 LTPEs but that seemed very low to me. According to him it was said that about 30 new qualify per year. If that would be true, my guess is that that applies to NL alone.
But to take the guessing out of this - is there any public info on how many LTPEs there are in a country, in the Benelux, or in total ?
Or did anyone make educated guesses before ?
this came up because one of us had his wife seated in the row in front of us - which was (European) business and the seat next to her was free - so the question was asked if - without expecting the service - it was ok to sit next to his wife, in stead of behind her behind the curtain.
'no sir, that is not allowable, it would offend the other passengers' - that were in total 4 more pax who seemed to be op-ups... In any case, the purser made no reference at all to the fact that we were all plats (lt)...so much for appreciation for loyal customers.
One of the 3 mentioned there are only 500 LTPEs but that seemed very low to me. According to him it was said that about 30 new qualify per year. If that would be true, my guess is that that applies to NL alone.
But to take the guessing out of this - is there any public info on how many LTPEs there are in a country, in the Benelux, or in total ?
Or did anyone make educated guesses before ?
this came up because one of us had his wife seated in the row in front of us - which was (European) business and the seat next to her was free - so the question was asked if - without expecting the service - it was ok to sit next to his wife, in stead of behind her behind the curtain.
'no sir, that is not allowable, it would offend the other passengers' - that were in total 4 more pax who seemed to be op-ups... In any case, the purser made no reference at all to the fact that we were all plats (lt)...so much for appreciation for loyal customers.