Originally Posted by cxwaterboy (Post 36888995)

No, the person was speculating.

Originally Posted by VE105 (Post 36888837)

Just ignore him. He has already attracted 20 pages of meaningless arguments surrounding him in the other post.

Originally Posted by Poto (Post 36888231)

I’m currently at 6xx and my membership year ends on 28 Feb. Should I ask for a 3-month extension? So that my SP will be inflated and hopefully I can qualify for the next tier after a few flights when the change is announced.

Originally Posted by QRC3288 (Post 36888264)

Does anyone here know an expected timeframe when these will be announced, and also when they will go into effect?

Originally Posted by NZflyer777 (Post 36888796)

But considering that management is intent on down sizing CX to justify a merger , this strategy would not be surprising.

Originally Posted by CX HK (Post 36888944)

Wait - what merger? What did I miss here.

Originally Posted by thomas164 (Post 36893376)

Inspired by the other thread:

What if SP and membership year resets together once a member reaches a new tier? So you get one whole year to move further up instead of half a year (or less) with points reset? It seems to be a balance between current system and the proposed “no SP reset”?

Originally Posted by ernestnywang (Post 36894637)

Umm...currently your status points and membership year do get reset together. You always get 12 months, and unless the new membership year starts on the 1st of the month, you get the remainder of the final month, too, for membership year always ends at the end of a month.

Originally Posted by blueboat (Post 36895733)

what i just saw on the last weekend ,
all the gold & DM got upgraded.
in the past few month , i didnt see any DM upgrade & gold not upgraded , i always see DM + gold got upgraded together.

is it possible that the CX system already merge this 2 tier as almost the same level already ?

Originally Posted by blueboat (Post 36895733)

what i just saw on the last weekend ,
all the gold & DM got upgraded.
in the past few month , i didnt see any DM upgrade & gold not upgraded , i always see DM + gold got upgraded together.

is it possible that the CX system already merge this 2 tier as almost the same level already ?

Originally Posted by lixiaojuventus (Post 36895925)

What do you mean by "upgrade"? All DM and GO received complimentary upgrades on ONE flight due to oversold? Or does this happen on many flights?

Originally Posted by CarefreeBA (Post 36895977)

What's being referred here is technically known as an 'involuntary regrade' or better known as a free upgrade.

It doesn't happen on many flights, but there are certain flights that have a higher chance of allowing you to get one than others due to time of day/year.

DM and GO naturally have a higher chance of getting upgraded.

Originally Posted by CarefreeBA (Post 36895977)

What's being referred here is technically known as an 'involuntary regrade' or better known as a free upgrade.

It doesn't happen on many flights, but there are certain flights that have a higher chance of allowing you to get one than others due to time of day/year.

DM and GO naturally have a higher chance of getting upgraded.

Originally Posted by thomas164 (Post 36894711)

I got quite confused by the other thread, saying that your SP gets reset but not membership year.

Originally Posted by Cambo (Post 36881275)

"Some" airlines seem to forget the whole purpose of their loyalty program: To reduce price competition and let people book flights which are more expensive on their metal than on metal of the competition. That people are prepared to pay more for a seat/experience because of the goodies they additionally get. Reduce those goodies and people will consider the competition and the airline will lose out on bookings. With the consequence that people who book later can get better pricing (because the cheaper booking classes are still (need to be) available and you lose out on the extra money you could make on the more expensive booking classes, etc. This is a self-reinforcing effect

Make the goodies reduction to big and people give you the middle finger for the loyalty goodies at all and become free agents, which in turn does move the flight/airline selection to a price competition, which you desperately try to avoid with your loyalty program.

Airlines also seem to forget that once they "grow", the number of flights grow, the number of destinations grow, and the more attractive that the airline becomes for frequent flyers. So, I'd dare to say, if an airline doubles the amount of flights, the flying by frequent flyers will increase more than that, maybe even significantly more. So, when your flights double, take care to be able to honor/handle 3 times the amount of goodie requests, IE, increase your lounge capacity more than proportionate.......

Originally Posted by cxwaterboy (Post 36879526)

It was realistic pre-2016. There still are EY DMs but they fly long-haul Y as well. It is honestly very impressive because even for PEY you'd have to do 8-10 long-hauls. That is why I think it is not wise to drive this group of customers away.

Perhaps the changes are to combat the increased number of DMs. There are more than 40K of us now.