Lol, not getting your preferred shower slot must be in the running for ‘the most first world problem’ ever. :D

I get that which is definitely better than nothing, but my point was more it just feels a bit odd that I'm being demoted back to Blue again shortly when I was only a couple of thousand Tier Miles away from Gold with months of my earning year left and was left with no possibility of taking any more flights. Weird consequence of how Skywards renewal system works in your first year and is basically going to mean I probably go back to only using QR and WY in future, which surely isn't what EK intended to achieve.

I'm not sure if you should chalk that up as a 'former' benefit of Plat, could be a long time before there are a significant number of A380s flying again and probably even longer before F is full on them!

I think most on FT need a reality check: while they say to do, airlines do not care about loyalty programmes. True loyalty is dead. Loyalty programmes are data farms and nothing more.

Loyalty programmes are valuable mailing lists and can be/are tailored for targeted promos.

My sibling had their Silver Tier turn back to blue (now its May 2020, with the 12+1 month rule)

Emirates announce they will extend all Tier statues until December 2020, has anyone successfully had their status extended?

My requalification date was 30 Apr 2020, on 01 May that was extended (showing on App) by another 6 months.

Requal date was 31st March and now showing 31st October, which is neither 6 months nor the end of December. It does however say the latest status might not show immediately so I'll just wait and see what happens.

My Silver expiration date is Aug 31st and still shows as that.

Bit confused over EK's policy with miles. I have a load that are due to expire 31st Dec 2020 and got an email saying that EK was extending the validity and now they won't expire until Dec 2020 ????

If I login I get the message "xx,xxx Miles to expire on Invalid date" but if I look at my statement it still says my miles will expire end of this year. Hopefully EK give me another year or else just does the decent thing and scrap stupid expirary dates (like UA have done) or extend them ad infinitum if there is activity (like just about everyone else).

Rumor has it status extensions of 6 months are currently under consideration

so how did you get i\o flying Y?

6 months is still too less, it should be same as hotel extend for a year even more. also some airline already extend their program by giving tier points to member account. there is no harmful as when every things back to normal, if I have nothing benefit on this airline, it is very easy for pax change their FFP to others company.

My girlfriend put in a good word for me ;)

In all seriousness, not sure why - the pack was with my assistant in the morning

Ek is not really known to be generous. Airlines dont really care about loyalty programmes, anyway.

Congrats! Now I’m curious how much you’ve spent with EK over the past year. If so much of your travel is in Y, not sure how you qualified since you probably still didn’t spend as much as we thought was required for iO.
Maybe they’re loosening the requirements to some of the more frequent flyers to give an incentive to fly more once operations resume normally again? Just a guess