Maintain status/soft landing dumb question

[Must...Fly!]

All you get with the calendar year is the convenience of knowing when your counts get reset at the cost of losing flexibility as to when you can earn.

Keep it the way it is, it's better for us and I like the way Velocity have done it.

 

[ja1]

G'day SY - Given you seem to have a whole year to get the 800 SC, and noting the double SC offer on at the moment.. are you really sure you can't make the SC (especially if you could make use of family pooling - to effectively double your SC earn on the whole pool).

e.g. a normal trip might make 30SC each way and you could get 120SC out of it, and then 240 if travelling with just one family member.. and so on..

 

[TomVexille]

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By far, the simplest approach would be to just operate the rewards program based on the calender year. Do any airlines do this? Alongside a status challenge/match process in place i cant see any potential down sides

The US majors all do

 

[Must...Fly!]

The US majors all do

And they always have the customer in mind as number one....right....

 

[serfty]

Some years ago, HHonors tried to implement a rolling status philosophy - up to 13 months of a status once earned with the last 12 months to requalify. The backlash was so bad, they very quickly reverted.

So, it is back to get that status in January & keep it for up to 27 months until April 2 years later with only needing to have re-qualifying activity in the calendar year before that April.

 

[SheikYerbouti]

G'day SY - Given you seem to have a whole year to get the 800 SC, and noting the double SC offer on at the moment.. are you really sure you can't make the SC (especially if you could make use of family pooling - to effectively double your SC earn on the whole pool).

e.g. a normal trip might make 30SC each way and you could get 120SC out of it, and then 240 if travelling with just one family member.. and so on..

Yes I have a couple of trips sorted inc NZ with the family, booking in double SC period ... but likely to make 450-ish this year, would be fine if I was gold but won't quite make Plat renewal. Which is fine as I'll revert to Gold.