Originally Posted by percysmith (Post 36918761)

Celebrate when each of them expire and CX is relieved of an onerous obligation?

Originally Posted by lsquare (Post 36918821)

Other OW airlines have LT tiers.

Originally Posted by PaulC852 (Post 36918312)

We should ask the (still existing) Invitation members for the definitive answer - I think a couple post here occasionally. I don't have any record, but from memory I think it was something like 1M flight miles on CX, where J counted as 1.5 times and F as 2 times. Back in those days that was quite a lot. With the increase in CX's network and the amount people fly I can see that lifetime would have to be much more than that these days.

Originally Posted by TomYoung (Post 36918565)

My memory is hazy. Perhaps Old China Hand or another can remember more clearly but I would say it was 2 million credit miles, with Y as x1, J as x1.25 and F as x1.5. In addition one had to have 10 consecutive years of active membership. There were no partners. One could not go away for a couple of years and then continue the route to 10 years. One had to start again.
I qualified in November 1998 which was the date that Cathay announced as the last one for qualification. I was not aware of the date being extended to later but perhaps that was done to assuage those who came so close.
We seem to be pretty rare birds these days. Many Chief Pursers (ISMs) tell me that they have not seen one of us for several months. Recently I was told that by one that she had had to explain what we are to new staff who had not been told or paid any attention during their training. Two of the crew asked to be able to come forward to take a look at me - something like being a rare specimen in a zoo.
Aside from that, one could qualify for Diamond membership by flying 80 sectors in J or F during a year to reward folk based in HK whose travel was almost all regional.

Originally Posted by CX HK (Post 36918623)

Those must have been the "good old days" of flying, when the entire experience was much more exclusive and premium. 2 million credit miles in the 80s/90s is no joke. Would love to hear your stories/experiences from those days.

Originally Posted by TomYoung (Post 36920594)

80/90s are yesterday.. The real stories are in the 40/50s, plus a few in the 60s. I still remember landing on the old Kai Tak runway. The OLD one, not the one that stuck into the harbour but the one that was more an extension of Argyle Street that ran towards Choi Hung.

Originally Posted by ernestnywang (Post 36919991)

The CX timetables I bought (yes, I bought!) from the late 1990s indicate it is 25% bonus for J and 50% for F, the same as how things were all the way until the previous MPO overhaul in 2016. Unfortunately, the timetables mentioned nothing about lifetime membership.

CX also used to use kilometres instead of miles when the mileage award programme was Passages, not Asia Miles. Combining what you both said, I guess the requirement was 2 million km? I'm at 900+k mi now (purely CX, not including other oneworld). Ah, would have been close.

The 20, 40, and 80 Club sectors requirements for SL, GO, and DM, respectively survived all the way until 2016, and J counts as 1.25, F 1.5.

Originally Posted by blueboat (Post 36921101)

as i remember , before the change in 2015 /2016 , it was 30/60/120 sector.

Originally Posted by ernestnywang (Post 36921115)

No, it was 30000, 60000, 120000 Club miles or 20, 40, 80 Club sectors, respectively, for SL, GO, and DM. See https://web.archive.org/web/20150716...lub-tiers.html

Originally Posted by blueboat (Post 36921159)

wow , how come i am remebering 30/60/120. may be other program then.

Originally Posted by tboons (Post 36937198)

They have removed diamond plus from the March magazine

Originally Posted by tboons (Post 36937198)

They have removed diamond plus from the March magazine