New Platinum benefit - miles don't expire
Dec 10, 2018, 8:32 pm
#3
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: MAN DXB ✈️
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 6,831
a slightly pointless benefit - when you are plat you have either a ton of miles if you fly j or f or hardly any if you fly y an sues them a lot. Cant see the point in this as when you lose status that’s when you’d need or may want to stop them expiring.
Dec 10, 2018, 11:03 pm
#4
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: DXB
Programs: EK, AA, DL, UA, SPG, HGP, Amex
Posts: 1,208
Yeah... there must have been one Plat who only flies paid F, never uses miles for upgrades, and has no friends/family to use the miles for, who complained when his (huge) pile of miles would get trimmed by expiring miles. Or marketing did the math and thought this was an easy give.
Dec 10, 2018, 11:13 pm
#5
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,801
Maybe the benefit is that miles earned as Plat never expire so they can be used after losing Plat? Or 3 year expiry countdown only starts when Plat is lost. That'd be useful
Dec 11, 2018, 1:37 am
#6
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 197
they should rather bring back benefits like welcome gift for Plats / Gold or work on enhanced benefits. FF world is getting fierce competition and so does the Premium J/F product. For me also, if i was plat it would be a useless benefit for the non-expiring miles.
Dec 11, 2018, 1:47 am
#7
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: AU
Programs: EK platinum, ET, SAS
Posts: 542
With the decay of the Australian dollar, tickets have gone up a lot recently. Consequently, I now often purchase return tickets where the outbound leg is in F and the inbound leg is in J. I routinely use the skywards miles to upgrade the inbound flight to F, or else I use them to upgrade friends or family who are flying Y. Consequently I generally have few Skyward miles. 934 at the moment! Waiting for the 20,000 odd miles to come from Citi, as I use my MasterCard to book online. Hoping the Pacific Peso (AUD) improves at some stage.
Dec 11, 2018, 1:54 am
#8
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: AU
Programs: EK platinum, ET, SAS
Posts: 542
I agree, benefits are not stellar. Improving and extending them would be welcomed.
Dec 11, 2018, 6:03 am
#9
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: MAN DXB ✈️
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 6,831
With the decay of the Australian dollar, tickets have gone up a lot recently. Consequently, I now often purchase return tickets where the outbound leg is in F and the inbound leg is in J. I routinely use the skywards miles to upgrade the inbound flight to F, or else I use them to upgrade friends or family who are flying Y. Consequently I generally have few Skyward miles. 934 at the moment! Waiting for the 20,000 odd miles to come from Citi, as I use my MasterCard to book online. Hoping the Pacific Peso (AUD) improves at some stage.
id like lifetime gold for 10 years in a row
Dec 11, 2018, 7:41 am
#11
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 5,454
Dec 15, 2018, 7:32 am
#12
Join Date: Feb 2016
Programs: MM, EK, HH, etc.
Posts: 381
It‘s essentially about being able to show more „benefits“, while making sure there are practically no costs associated... ...given the miles difference required between gold and plat, the benefits as plat continue to remain a bit of a joke to me.