Not requalifying for Alata Plus - Ulisse or Alata for 2017?
May 22, 2017, 2:17 am
#46
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: WAW ✈ LHR ✈ GLA
Programs: BA GfL/GGL/CCR, HH Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 2,502
Alitalia downgraded my Freccia Alata Plus to Ulisses on 1 April, then offered me a challenge to take two biz flights to Rome to get Freccia Alata (Gold) for another year. I have booked and taken those flights, but my status still hasn't been updated to Freccia Alata...
May 30, 2017, 1:14 am
#47
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Paris
Programs: Flyingblue Platinum, All Accor Platinum, M&M Senator
Posts: 316
My status has been upgraded to Gold (Freccia Alata) this morning.
I was Freccia Alata Plus and received the email with following challenge:
Take 4 Y flights on medium/long haul flights operated by Alitalia
Take 2 C flights on medium/long haul flights operated by Alitalia
I took the first challenge which I completed by the end of April.
I did book all the tickets via OTA.
2 of them where already booked before the mail with the challenge came in my inbox.
Tickets where in issued in R, H and B class
Status is valid until end of March 2018.
I was Freccia Alata Plus and received the email with following challenge:
Take 4 Y flights on medium/long haul flights operated by Alitalia
Take 2 C flights on medium/long haul flights operated by Alitalia
I took the first challenge which I completed by the end of April.
I did book all the tickets via OTA.
2 of them where already booked before the mail with the challenge came in my inbox.
Tickets where in issued in R, H and B class
Status is valid until end of March 2018.
Jun 2, 2017, 5:37 am
#49
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: SIN
Programs: A3 Gold, SQ KF Elite Gold, QR Gold, IB Plata, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 175
I got my status i believe sometime in mid 2015 and also had it up till 31/3/17.
Had credited about 16 flights on ST partners from 12/2015 - 2/2017 (no flights on AZ)
I got downgraded to the basic level as well and going through this thread there have been people who've only credited 1 or 2 ST partners and the got soft landing to GOLD.
Is AZ just randomly selecting people or was there an email I was supposed to respond to? (I've never received any communication from AZ)
Does it make any difference to call the call center?
Had credited about 16 flights on ST partners from 12/2015 - 2/2017 (no flights on AZ)
I got downgraded to the basic level as well and going through this thread there have been people who've only credited 1 or 2 ST partners and the got soft landing to GOLD.
Is AZ just randomly selecting people or was there an email I was supposed to respond to? (I've never received any communication from AZ)
Does it make any difference to call the call center?
Jun 2, 2017, 5:53 am
#50
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Paris
Programs: Flyingblue Platinum, All Accor Platinum, M&M Senator
Posts: 316
The mail was send around end of March (in my case 31March).
Seems that only FCP based outside Italy where targetted (in another forum, Italian based FCP where complaining they did not receive the email).
In my case during 2016 I credited on my FCP account 12 AZ flights and 5 EY. But could not reach any status with those.
My challenge was to take:
2 Business international legs or
4 Economy International legs
until end of April
Account owner had to make sure that all the flights where credited by end of May.
Aug 18, 2017, 8:45 am
#51
Join Date: Aug 2012
Programs: BA, Bonvoy, ALL
Posts: 94
Got the email in March but I only read it today...
1 return medium-haul flight required (ie LHR-FCO) to qualify for ULISSE.
I was status matched to FRECCIA ALATA CLUB and took 4 EY flights on the card.
Separately, what's the best way to use 23k miles I now have in the account before they expire? Thanks.
1 return medium-haul flight required (ie LHR-FCO) to qualify for ULISSE.
I was status matched to FRECCIA ALATA CLUB and took 4 EY flights on the card.
Separately, what's the best way to use 23k miles I now have in the account before they expire? Thanks.
Sep 6, 2017, 7:00 am
#52
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Bangkok, Thailand. No longer Palm Coast, FL though still exiled, again, from the Bay Area.
Programs: Only the good ones
Posts: 5,153
My FA+ soft landed to Ullise which will come inhandy tomorrow on a LIN-FCO light fare. Ullise get a free checked bag, so saved 15 euro. And I used the FA+ when I had it, earned 43k miles, for a CI PE RT BKK-LAX and a CZ business class RT BKK-PVG. Will be using the miles for an intra Asia flight since the fares are creeping up a little. Not bad for a status match.
Sep 13, 2017, 8:01 am
#53
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Netherlands
Programs: KL Platinum; A3 Gold
Posts: 28,742
My FA+ soft landed to Ullise which will come inhandy tomorrow on a LIN-FCO light fare. Ullise get a free checked bag, so saved 15 euro. And I used the FA+ when I had it, earned 43k miles, for a CI PE RT BKK-LAX and a CZ business class RT BKK-PVG. Will be using the miles for an intra Asia flight since the fares are creeping up a little. Not bad for a status match.
Are you sure you didn't just do enough flying to earn Ulisse outright, or via some kind of challenge/offer as discussed in this thread?
Oct 10, 2017, 2:51 am
#54
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Paris
Programs: Flyingblue Platinum, All Accor Platinum, M&M Senator
Posts: 316
I took the challenge and got the gold card back in April (I did 6 legs CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; CDG-FCO; FCO-ATH)
- in bold the one that counted for the challenge-
After 6 months of Gold, my status got cancelled without any explanation end of September.
All miles from from April 2017 (around 10k) got cancelled.
Call center is explaining me that I was downgraded as the rules are following:
CDG-FCO and FCO-ATH are not counting as 2 qualifying flights but only as 1 as the 2 legs are in one booking number/ticket.
CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; is counting as 2 legs because even if the booking code/ticket number is unique the flights to CDG are in 2 different days.
Therefore I made only 3 qualifying legs and not 4.
Call center was playing around the word legs and flights all the time.
I got downgraded to basic (no softlanding to Silver for me) and received my basic card yesterday.
Alitalia Millemiglia never again!!
- in bold the one that counted for the challenge-
After 6 months of Gold, my status got cancelled without any explanation end of September.
All miles from from April 2017 (around 10k) got cancelled.
Call center is explaining me that I was downgraded as the rules are following:
CDG-FCO and FCO-ATH are not counting as 2 qualifying flights but only as 1 as the 2 legs are in one booking number/ticket.
CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; is counting as 2 legs because even if the booking code/ticket number is unique the flights to CDG are in 2 different days.
Therefore I made only 3 qualifying legs and not 4.
Call center was playing around the word legs and flights all the time.
I got downgraded to basic (no softlanding to Silver for me) and received my basic card yesterday.
Alitalia Millemiglia never again!!
Oct 10, 2017, 3:10 am
#55
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: WAW ✈ LHR ✈ GLA
Programs: BA GfL/GGL/CCR, HH Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 2,502
I took the challenge and got the gold card back in April (I did 6 legs CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; CDG-FCO; FCO-ATH)
- in bold the one that counted for the challenge-
After 6 months of Gold, my status got cancelled without any explanation end of September.
All miles from from April 2017 (around 10k) got cancelled.
Call center is explaining me that I was downgraded as the rules are following:
CDG-FCO and FCO-ATH are not counting as 2 qualifying flights but only as 1 as the 2 legs are in one booking number/ticket.
CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; is counting as 2 legs because even if the booking code/ticket number is unique the flights to CDG are in 2 different days.
Therefore I made only 3 qualifying legs and not 4.
Call center was playing around the word legs and flights all the time.
I got downgraded to basic (no softlanding to Silver for me) and received my basic card yesterday.
Alitalia Millemiglia never again!!
- in bold the one that counted for the challenge-
After 6 months of Gold, my status got cancelled without any explanation end of September.
All miles from from April 2017 (around 10k) got cancelled.
Call center is explaining me that I was downgraded as the rules are following:
CDG-FCO and FCO-ATH are not counting as 2 qualifying flights but only as 1 as the 2 legs are in one booking number/ticket.
CDG-LIN; LIN-CTA; CTA-FCO;FCO-CDG; is counting as 2 legs because even if the booking code/ticket number is unique the flights to CDG are in 2 different days.
Therefore I made only 3 qualifying legs and not 4.
Call center was playing around the word legs and flights all the time.
I got downgraded to basic (no softlanding to Silver for me) and received my basic card yesterday.
Alitalia Millemiglia never again!!
I did a similar challenge, albeit I opted for two flights in business by flying LHR-FCO-TRN-FCO-LHR over an Easter weekend.
What annoyed me more was last weekend when I was flying BRE-AMS-LHR with KLM. At checkin at Bremen I was invited to use to the lounge as SkyTeam Elite Plus with Alitalia's Freccia Alata card. At the lounge I was refused entry as the agent would only let KLM/AirFrance elites to use the lounge... then at KLM Crown Lounge at Amsterdam I got asked for my Freccia Alata card despite having clearly printed "SkyTeam Elite Plus" on my boarding pass. I'll be avoiding Alitalia and SkyTeam in the future.
Oct 10, 2017, 2:18 pm
#56
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: ZRH/SFO
Programs: A3*G - AZ CFP- HH DIA
Posts: 3,666
Good luck with quitting SkyTeam, if you want to visit the LX lounges with, you also need to show your *Gold card as well...
Oct 10, 2017, 3:27 pm
#57
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: WAW ✈ LHR ✈ GLA
Programs: BA GfL/GGL/CCR, HH Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 2,502
Never been asked to show my *Gold card at the LX lounges...
Oct 13, 2017, 3:22 pm
#58
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: ZRH/SFO
Programs: A3*G - AZ CFP- HH DIA
Posts: 3,666
Oct 14, 2017, 2:43 am
#59
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: SJJ/AMS
Posts: 4,647
That aside, poor show indeed from the lounge agents at BRE.
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