Yay, just made platinum! Still have questions !
Jul 31, 2025 | 1:03 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NY
Programs: AA, HILTON, BONVOY, FlyingBlue
Posts: 1,804
Yay, just made platinum! Still have questions !
Having just started enjoying AF in Winter 2023, I’m happy to make platinum. Thanks for all the advice the last 2 years!
I still don’t get one thing though. UXPs. How do you earn them???? I get XPs but never UXP. And how are they different?
Jul 31, 2025 | 1:05 pm
#2
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: VIE
Programs: AFKL Platinum, SAS EBG (STE+), TK Elite (*G), Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond
Posts: 7,364
UXP count towards Ulti status and you only earn them on AFKL flights (and maybe on other Flying Blue airlines? Not sure), not on other SkyTeam airlines.
Jul 31, 2025 | 2:04 pm
#5
Join Date: Jan 2022
Location: In between VLC & ALC
Programs: Flying Blue Platinum, All Accor Diamond
Posts: 1,003
Also, what you need this year to reach Platinum doesn't mean is what you need - say - in 2 years from now to reach Platinum. AFKL is free to increase (or lower, but that will never happen) the thresholds. So even if you need 2699 more XP to get to Platinum for life spread over 9 years, it might be that at some point you will need more than 300 annually to continue being Platinum.
Aug 1, 2025 | 9:44 am
#6
Moderator: Aegean Miles+Bonus
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: AMS / ATH
Programs: AFKL Plat, A3 Gold
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While that is absolutely true and a change to the qualification rules could happen at any time - AFKL seems to be taking the path reducing the XP earnings (look at the new basic fares for the first step).
I’m hopeful that status qualification rules won’t change anytime soon (on top of the earning restrictions that are coming up..).
But we won’t know for sure of course. 10 years is a long time.
I’m hopeful that status qualification rules won’t change anytime soon (on top of the earning restrictions that are coming up..).
But we won’t know for sure of course. 10 years is a long time.
Aug 1, 2025 | 10:23 am
#7
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: AF Ultimate & Plat 4 life/AY LUMO/SK EBD/LH SEN/HYATT Globalist/MR LTP/A3 *G/HH Dia/IHG DIA
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While that is absolutely true and a change to the qualification rules could happen at any time - AFKL seems to be taking the path reducing the XP earnings (look at the new basic fares for the first step).
I’m hopeful that status qualification rules won’t change anytime soon (on top of the earning restrictions that are coming up..).
But we won’t know for sure of course. 10 years is a long time.
I’m hopeful that status qualification rules won’t change anytime soon (on top of the earning restrictions that are coming up..).
But we won’t know for sure of course. 10 years is a long time.
Aug 1, 2025 | 4:30 pm
#8
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This is all so new to me coming from AA.
Ive been taking advantage of transcon trips as well as any Delta trips to gain XP as well as ....buying up SAF.
My goal is to book a La Premiere flight at some point exCDG (what are the longest laP routes?) with miles and then buy my wife the other seat.
Ive been taking advantage of transcon trips as well as any Delta trips to gain XP as well as ....buying up SAF.
My goal is to book a La Premiere flight at some point exCDG (what are the longest laP routes?) with miles and then buy my wife the other seat.
Aug 2, 2025 | 2:56 am
#9
Join Date: Nov 2024
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Aug 2, 2025 | 10:17 am
#10
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci Diamond Hairbrush Elite, BAC silver. EBG, AF Blue
Posts: 5,128
Aug 3, 2025 | 3:27 am
#11
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: AMS
Programs: Flying Blue - Platinum
Posts: 258
Aug 3, 2025 | 6:37 am
#12
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci Diamond Hairbrush Elite, BAC silver. EBG, AF Blue
Posts: 5,128
And also further than Tokyo it seems.
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
Thanks for the geography lesson.
There seems to have been somewhat of a sale on LP CDG-SIN on certain dates, it can be had for Ł8500 return when flying from the UK (a lot more expensive if you fly directly out of CDG)
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
Thanks for the geography lesson.
There seems to have been somewhat of a sale on LP CDG-SIN on certain dates, it can be had for Ł8500 return when flying from the UK (a lot more expensive if you fly directly out of CDG)
Aug 3, 2025 | 8:28 am
#13
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: VIE
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Similar fare is often available out of VIE - 8 thousand something euros for a return to SIN in P. It's been around for months, so not a sale.
Aug 3, 2025 | 8:50 am
#14
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci Diamond Hairbrush Elite, BAC silver. EBG, AF Blue
Posts: 5,128
It seems I have some adjustments to make.
"Somewhat of a sale" doesn't mean I thought it was actually a sale price, it just means I thought it is a reasonable price somewhat below my expectations.
I need to restrain my British idiomatic speech and be more directly fact based.
Doesn't seem likely I'm going away for at least a couple of years, so please bear with me as I pick up the Zeitgeist of this sub-forum.
Aug 3, 2025 | 10:02 am
#15
Join Date: Aug 2023
Location: Western Europe
Programs: Flying Blue Platinum
Posts: 314
And also further than Tokyo it seems.
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
Thanks for the geography lesson.
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
Thanks for the geography lesson.
Also, beware that flights to Asia are much longer than their optimal route as long as Russia is a no-fly zone for European airlines. (Roughly +2hrs for a CDG-HND flight vs pre-2022)
Last edited by Lemonwings; Aug 3, 2025 at 10:18 am