Free SILVER.........!!!!!
 

Last year I was just missing the 25000 miles by a short 850 miles for silver.
I wrote to the klm helpdesk asking for give me a silver card because I just very close to the 25ooo miles and I'm flying again KLM what I did in january 2004, but they dont gave me the silver card saying the rules reqiures the 25000 and they cannot change the rules.
also With SILVER you dont have anymore access to the lounges.

Why bother flying for Silver when they give it away to anyone who asks:

http://www.tarom.net/ft/silver.pdf

I tried a similar thing going from Silver to Gold (all flights with KLM). I was a couple of thousand miles short from Gold on 31-Dec and then did HEL > HKG return with KLM in Biz in the first weeks of January. At the time, the website was still showing the miles I had accumulated in 2003 so I emailed them to ask if the flight in January could/would be counted towards 2003 (as the website indicated).

I got the "Rules are rules" response as well.

From the various posts on here, it's clear that they're not too worried about whether people actually flew with them in 2003 so why would they bother to bend the rules to reward those of us who did?! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/rolleyes.gif

Welcome to the board, Graham, and to FD in Wonderland!

You have already peered through the looking-glass and identified the perverse logic that forms the basis of FD policy :

On the one hand, regular, frequent and loyal passengers should be completely ignored. If this is not possible, they should be treated with a complete lack of flexibility and generosity.

On the other hand, anybody who will submit a sworn statement that they have never set foot in a KLM aircraft, and never intend to, will be given an elite card, preferably for several years. Occasionally, a couple of hundred thousand miles will be thrown in as a bonus.

Good luck in your quest for a GE card.

johan