I would just be happy if they pushed out the anniversary for the same period that they don’t fly ( maybe plus a month) and keep the status credits already earned. For example, if they don’t fly for four months and your anniversary date is 31 May your new date would be 30 September. This still gives you 12/13 months to obtain the required credits.
Well now that's a little TOO simple and fair lol.
The problem with that idea is technical I reckon. That would mean basically resetting everyone's anniversary date which may or may not be a set field in their system (as in Join date). We know that QF already has processes in place to manually credit SC, so that's where Serfty's idea could actually work, and we know they can obviously extend status expiry. I think modifying membership anniversaries would be a level of complexity (writing as someone with zero knowledge of the workings within QFF - just as a user0. Given it's all built on legacy systems I am sure this would be a step too far.
Plus I've not seen any other example of this approach out there. Hilton just extended status by a year (which actually totally advantages me as I was due to drop at April 1).
In these times where companies such as QF are struggling, putting off staff etc with near zero cash flow, they just couldn't possibly afford the resource to implement stuff like this when they have tools already to do a bulk status extension.
To do Serfy's suggestion they'd have to not only extend the expiry, but then also do a montly run for each membership anniversary that passes to then re-add toe pre-expiry SC to the new membership year (or actually come to think of it, just cancel the monthly job to do the roll over). I suspect that same roll over job probably also expires points and does other housekeeping activities and they'd probably be loath to change any of that automation. I know I would be if I was in the responsible team there (if I still had a job!)
so yes, end result is there are winners and "losers" (less winning really) than others here. It's not perfect. This is the problem I guess with rolling memberships rather than a set year end for all (like Hilton, or say UA) where giving status for another year is much fairer.
I still come back to feeling in these incredibly uncertain times with so much going on in the world that's so very much bigger than worrying about status and all this that QF's still been very generous. I understand people disagree given their particular circumstances but I also feel just about everyone likely has so much more to be worried about right now - most notably some keeping the jobs that may provide for their travel(one way or another) or the roof over their heads or even their very lives (at the most melodramatic and hopefully very very rare extreme).
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