Advice-Silver status renew
 

My Silver will be expired on 10/31, I am short of 7000 miles. I am going back to HKG at the end of Oct. If I travel on 10/28 from NYC/HKG (8059 miles), and come back on 11/2. Will the segment (HKG/NYC) of 8059 miles count toward as my new calender year of Silver status?

It is when the miles hit your account unfortunately, not when you do the actual flying. I just checked quickly, Oct 28 is a Tuesday, meaning you takeoff 12 hours later likely on Wed HK time (which is the time they use for the cutoff). JFK is pretty quick to update themiles, and since every day is a weekday (miles update faster, seems to take longer over weekends) I say you have decent odds (50-75% chance) of making it the straight way.

That said, if that doesn't happen, you can always try to plead your case with CX and see where it gets you. They're handing out silver memberships like candy it seems to those who are signing up for this credit card and flying J (are you in F, J or Y?)

Very interesting. Can you elaborate? Officially Cathay is only giving away Green (not Silver) membership to those who sign up, and aren't already members of MPO.

If you generally fly J then Silver status has pretty much zero additional benefit...

I think people misread the OP.

The answer is: if on 31/10 your first flight hasn't hit your account then call MPC and explain the situation. They will probably be able to credit it straight away. On 1/11 your new membership year will start and the second flight will definitely credit to it.

If I've misunderstood and you if fact for some reason want to revert to Green and then credit both flights to the next year then the answer is to get your MPC number out of your reservation and then manually claim the credit once you have dropped to Green.

That's what I thought, but we booked a J round-trip for a colleague HKG-JFK (never banked miles with CX before, just moved to HK), and he put it on his new CX Amex. A while later he gets a SL card in the mail. That's the only personal situation I know, but I recall many other posts with similar stories...people booking J or F class travel, not hitting the SL minimum, and still getting SL if they have the card.

As christep says, the SL card is pretty much a moot point anyway if you're flying J.

I had a similar problem a few months ago (trying to keep my gold status), I did not have enough points to renew gold, but in the following month I was flying enough that I would have qualified. I rang MPC and explained my situation, they put a note on my file and told me to call them back after I had completed the flights. I did and my gold status was renewed that day. Give MPC a call and explain your situation, they maybe able to help.