{"id":2124,"date":"2018-06-19T16:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcifly.com\/blog\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:04:46","slug":"fastest-way-to-star-alliance-silver-card-frequent-traveler-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcifly.com\/blog\/fastest-way-to-star-alliance-silver-card-frequent-traveler-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest way to Star Alliance silver card Frequent traveler status"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a frequent traveller, with silver<\/a> FTL<\/strong> status at Miles&More<\/a> for longer than 5 years, I never got to the Gold card – even though this year, I flew 122 flight segments with them.<\/p>\n

In short, to get faster to gold FTL<\/strong> within Staralliance, use Miles+Bonus (Aegean \/ Air Olympic). You will need about 18 economy flights to get to silver FTL<\/strong>, and another 36 economy flights to get to gold FTL<\/strong>. You’ll get twice as much miles for the same flights booking by using a Miles+Bonus card than with a Miles&More card (Lufthansa<\/a> \/ SWISS airlines<\/a> \/ Austrian airlines<\/a> \/ LOT Polish airlines<\/a>), and, with the later, you’ll need 30 economy flights to get to silver FTL<\/strong>, and about 180 flights to get to gold FTL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Miles+Bonus Aeagean a Starraliance member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Miles and More Lufthansa a Starraliance member<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n

With Miles&More, you get to silver FTL<\/strong> with 35 000 miles earned in a year (or with 30 flight segments)<\/p>\n

With Miles+Bonus, you get to silver FTL<\/strong> with 12 000 miles earned in a year (if it includes 2 Aegean flights, otherwise 24 000 miles)<\/p>\n

With Miles&More, you upgrade from silver to gold FTL<\/strong> with 100 000 miles earned in a year<\/p>\n

With Miles+Bonus, you upgrade from silver to gold FTL<\/strong> with 24 000 miles earned in a year (if it includes 4 Aegean flights, otherwise 48 000 miles)<\/p>\n

In the earlier times, it was possible to get gold FTL<\/strong> with Miles&More with 120 flight segments a year – this is not possible anymore, as I discovered in 2016.<\/p>\n

To get to silver FTL<\/strong> with Miles+Bonus, all what was needed was to collected 12 000 miles (including some Aegean flights), which I did through only 18 flights segments – where Miles&More would have required 30 flights and 35 000 miles for the same result.<\/p>\n

To get gold FTL<\/strong> with Miles+Bonus, I still need about twice what I did to get silver FTL<\/strong>, which means about 36 flights for 24 000 miles… whereas with Miles&More, even 122 flights for 67 000 miles weren’t enough to grab the gold FTL<\/strong> !<\/p>\n

Not only Miles+Bonus requires less mileage to reach silver FTL<\/strong> or gold FTL<\/strong>, it also offers more mileage for the same flights – about twice as more as per below calculation.<\/p>\n

Chart below shows mileage received from Miles&More (total of 8500 Miles&More miles for these 16 flights), and how much mileage it would have earned if used with a Miles+Bonus frequent flyer card (total of 15529 Miles+Bonus miles for these 16 flights), as per the Aegean Miles Calculator<\/a> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Activity \/ Partner code \/ Flight no. \/ Booking class<\/strong><\/td>\nFlight<\/strong><\/td>\nClass<\/strong><\/td>\nMiles & More<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Miles+Bonus<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geneva GVA<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nA3821<\/td>\nEconomy Class<\/a>,\u00a0Q<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n1077<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Larnaca LCA<\/a><\/td>\nA3910<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0Q<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Geneva GVA<\/a><\/td>\nLX1823<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0U<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n808<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paris Charles de Gaulle CDG<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nA3613<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0K<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n1306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Frankfurt am Main FRA<\/a><\/td>\nLH1283<\/td>\nBusiness Class<\/a>,\u00a0P<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n847<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frankfurt am Main FRA<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nLH1284<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0L<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n1129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – London Heathrow LHR<\/a><\/td>\nA3600<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0S<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n1495<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhodes RHO<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nA3201<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0S<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Rhodes RHO<\/a><\/td>\nA3218<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0T<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milano Malpensa MXP<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nA3665<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0T<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n692<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Frankfurt am Main FRA<\/a><\/td>\nLH1283<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0Q<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n1129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frankfurt am Main FRA<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nLH1284<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0V<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n1129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Z\u00fcrich ZRH<\/a><\/td>\nLX1839<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0S<\/td>\n500<\/td>\n1019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Munich MUC<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nA3803<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0L<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n944<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Athens ATH<\/a> – Munich MUC<\/a><\/td>\nA3802<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0B<\/td>\n1250<\/td>\n1180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Z\u00fcrich ZRH<\/a> – Athens ATH<\/a><\/td>\nLX1842<\/td>\nEconomy Class,\u00a0H<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n1274<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TOTAL<\/strong><\/td>\n8500<\/strong><\/td>\n15529<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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