SAS Lifetime Gold Status Is Here (Finally)
Mar 5, 19, 8:26 am
#151
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 5
Lifetime gold -help needed
I had Euro bonus gold status from 2005- 2015, but Eurobonus still won’t approve me for lifetime gold status as they clame I wasn’t a gold member until 2006. I’m absolutely certain of which year this was and have printouts of pointstatements from 2005-06 that lists me as a gold member, but according to their files, I didn’t meet the point requirements for that year. My theory is that since I live in Norway, there was a different and lower point limit in Norway than in other countries that year, and thus it might look like I didn’t have enough points in 2005 , because they now only have the point limit used in other countries the same year.
anybody else with the same problem? Or anybody with any info, links etc on the point limit for Eurobonus gold in Norway in 2005?
anybody else with the same problem? Or anybody with any info, links etc on the point limit for Eurobonus gold in Norway in 2005?
Mar 5, 19, 8:41 am
#152
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BKK
Programs: SK EBG for Life (*G), BA Gold, HH DIA, IC Platinum Ambassador, Hertz President's Circle, Sixt Plat
Posts: 1,331
Guess it depends on when in that qualifying year you reached EBG, and when your qualifying year runs from. If you reached it e.g. in 2006 on the last day, then you did not have ten years. But from your post, you don’t seem to have reached any significant status for the past four years, so SAS probably do not have a great incentive to push your case either (sorry to be blunt).
Mar 5, 19, 7:31 pm
#154
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BKK
Programs: SK EBG for Life (*G), BA Gold, HH DIA, IC Platinum Ambassador, Hertz President's Circle, Sixt Plat
Posts: 1,331
Originally Posted by tetra
Qualified the first time in Dec 05, the last time in -15, my qualificationperiode runs from March to Feb
And sorry about the double posting, have removed the other one, wa unaware of the rule
And sorry about the double posting, have removed the other one, wa unaware of the rule
I guess this is one of these things where we do not really know SAS' exact definitions - I would expect it to mean 10 full years though.
Mar 6, 19, 12:41 am
#155
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Oslo, Norway
Programs: SK Diamond *G
Posts: 25
Originally Posted by tetra
I had Euro bonus gold status from 2005- 2015, but Eurobonus still won’t approve me for lifetime gold status as they clame I wasn’t a gold member until 2006. I’m absolutely certain of which year this was and have printouts of pointstatements from 2005-06 that lists me as a gold member, but according to their files, I didn’t meet the point requirements for that year. My theory is that since I live in Norway, there was a different and lower point limit in Norway than in other countries that year, and thus it might look like I didn’t have enough points in 2005 , because they now only have the point limit used in other countries the same year.
anybody else with the same problem? Or anybody with any info, links etc on the point limit for Eurobonus gold in Norway in 2005?
anybody else with the same problem? Or anybody with any info, links etc on the point limit for Eurobonus gold in Norway in 2005?
Mar 7, 19, 2:07 pm
#156
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: CPH
Programs: SK-EBD
Posts: 1,265
OP might have a point with the lower Norwegian threshold, as OP seems to have 10-11 years (app. the years 2006-2016).
I am sure, that the gold threshold was different, depending on where members had their official address. AFAIR Norway had a lower limit, but I don’t remember the limits.
From my old statements I can see, that the limit was lowered from 60.000 to 55.000 points for Danish members around new year 2004/2005.
If some of our Norwegian friends can find a printed point statement from that era, it might help…
I am sure, that the gold threshold was different, depending on where members had their official address. AFAIR Norway had a lower limit, but I don’t remember the limits.
From my old statements I can see, that the limit was lowered from 60.000 to 55.000 points for Danish members around new year 2004/2005.
If some of our Norwegian friends can find a printed point statement from that era, it might help…
Mar 7, 19, 2:15 pm
#157
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Preferable @30.000 feet
Programs: More than one
Posts: 1,673
Could it be this exceptions you are hitting?
"Flights taken within Norway between August 2002 – May 2013 does not qualifying for LTG due to Government restrictions enforced by Norwegian Competition Authority"
"Flights taken within Norway between August 2002 – May 2013 does not qualifying for LTG due to Government restrictions enforced by Norwegian Competition Authority"
Mar 7, 19, 2:33 pm
#158
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 1,494
Originally Posted by highupinthesky
Could it be this exceptions you are hitting?
"Flights taken within Norway between August 2002 – May 2013 does not qualifying for LTG due to Government restrictions enforced by Norwegian Competition Authority"
"Flights taken within Norway between August 2002 – May 2013 does not qualifying for LTG due to Government restrictions enforced by Norwegian Competition Authority"
Mar 8, 19, 12:45 pm
#159
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Preferable @30.000 feet
Programs: More than one
Posts: 1,673
Originally Posted by Some person
The Norwegian government wrote a law saying that you couldn't earn points on domestic flights. About a decade later, the supreme court ruled that the law was incompatible with Norway's EEA obligations, and so earning points was again possible (except on Widerøe's public service obligation routes). If the person took Norwegian domestic flights during those years, then I suppose that he got zero points and zero segments from them, so this is probably not the issue.
Mar 9, 19, 7:22 am
#161
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BKK
Programs: SK EBG for Life (*G), BA Gold, HH DIA, IC Platinum Ambassador, Hertz President's Circle, Sixt Plat
Posts: 1,331
Originally Posted by Some person
I think I read somewhere in this thread that basis points from credit cards don't count towards lifetime status. Could this be the problem here?
But the ability to earn basis points from credit cards is only a recent development, is it not? (I could be wrong)
Mar 9, 19, 7:56 am
#162
Join Date: Mar 2014
Programs: *G
Posts: 416
Originally Posted by Some person
I think I read somewhere in this thread that basis points from credit cards don't count towards lifetime status. Could this be the problem here?
Mar 9, 19, 8:12 am
#163
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Preferable @30.000 feet
Programs: More than one
Posts: 1,673
Originally Posted by SKT-DK
I would sincerely hope so!
But the ability to earn basis points from credit cards is only a recent development, is it not? (I could be wrong)
Mar 9, 19, 9:06 am
#164
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 1,494
Originally Posted by highupinthesky
I don't know with other countries, but in DK you don't earn basic point with the credit card. You earn extra points, and if you have a master card premium, you get 1000 status point every month you are using the mastercard. The status points count towards LTG just as basic points.
The user who wrote that specifically wrote "basic points" so I assumed that no credit card points would count towards LTG. Of course extra points earned from credit cards won't count.
Mar 9, 19, 12:40 pm
#165
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: KSU (Kristiansund N, Norway)
Programs: SAS EBD/ *G
Posts: 2,037
Originally Posted by Tango Alpha
OP might have a point with the lower Norwegian threshold, as OP seems to have 10-11 years (app. the years 2006-2016).
I am sure, that the gold threshold was different, depending on where members had their official address. AFAIR Norway had a lower limit, but I don’t remember the limits.
From my old statements I can see, that the limit was lowered from 60.000 to 55.000 points for Danish members around new year 2004/2005.
If some of our Norwegian friends can find a printed point statement from that era, it might help…
I am sure, that the gold threshold was different, depending on where members had their official address. AFAIR Norway had a lower limit, but I don’t remember the limits.
From my old statements I can see, that the limit was lowered from 60.000 to 55.000 points for Danish members around new year 2004/2005.
If some of our Norwegian friends can find a printed point statement from that era, it might help…
2002-2003: 100.000/50
2003-2004: 70.000/50
2004-2005: 60.000/50
2005-2006: 45.000/50
2006-2007: 45.000/25
2007-2014: 45.000/35
2014-2018: 45.000/45
