There are AerClub changes coming soon for Aer Lingus frequent flyers. Everyone’s anniversary date is now being harmonised so that everyone has the same period for earning Tier Credits. This is the same thing British Airways recently announced for their Executive Club members, however things are far simpler at the Irish airline.
Those people who have status are really getting a very good deal out of this. Nobody is losing out and in fact, quite the opposite will be true in many instances. Let’s have a look at what is going on.
Aer Lingus AerClub Changes
The new earning period will run from 1 April to 31 March each year, commencing on 1 April 2024. At this time, all Tier Credits will be reset to zero and everyone will commence their new year.
Anyone with Silver, Platinum or Concierge status will have their status extended to 31 March 2025, no matter when they were originally scheduled to lose it. If anyone already has an expiry date after 31 March 2025, your status will be extended to 31 March 2026. This means everyone receives more than they would have had originally, a win.
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- Good news for all!
Your Tier will be recalculated based on your earning from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. This means that if you have enough Tier Credits you will go up to or maintain your Silver, Platinum or Concierge level. Nobody will go down a tier, even if you do not have enough credits.
All other benefits such as upgrade vouchers will be maintained as normal. Anyone going up to a new tier will receive the usual coupons that come with the new status (if any).
Overall Thoughts
The Aer Lingus AerClub changes to harmonise the anniversary dates are really quite straightforward. Everyone with status will receive an extension, and if you have earned enough Tier Credits between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024 to move up a tier, you will be moved up.
All of this is far simpler than the British Airways example, which was quite frankly done in the most difficult way possible. Aer Lingus have made it simple and will reward people by extending their status. Some will get more than others, but that’s the nature of the current anniversary dates. I don’t believe it could have been any fairer.
What do you think of the AerClub changes? Are you a happy camper or is there some issue with this that you have found? Thank you for reading and if you have any comments or questions, please leave them below.
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Thanks for the blog. Why do you say “Nobody is losing out?” People close to moving up a tier in April, May, June, etc., will lose all their Tier Credits on April 1 and will no longer be close to moving up but will have to start again from zero. Why do we have to play by a new set of rules when we made our purchases based on the advertised set of rules? Plenty of people are losing out so I don’t understand your claim.
If those people are close to moving up a tier, then the recalculation based on 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 might get them over the line. It all depends on how people are working their Aer Lingus status earning, I guess. For the vast majority of people, as I said in the blog, it’s a win and the airline has done its best to attempt to cover all the bases from what I can see.
Sounds good in theory but my previous reset date was in November 23 on Platinum status. Since then I have been steadily building tier points to hit Concierge status (comes with 4x Business upgrades) in November 2024. All of those will now be wiped out at the end of March. Very frustrating to change the rules mid way through the game.
How many Tier Credits did you earn from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024? If you have enough to go to Concierge, you will be awarded that on 10 April 2024. If you had enough to reach Platinum in your last year, and have been building up to Concierge since your November reset, you may well have enough historically from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 to go up to Concierge immediately after the reset.
I’ve lost out .I joined 31st Oct 2023,I got up to 200 tier credits and would have had silver status June 2024 before I was reset to zero.Now I lose everything and it will take another 9 months to get silver status.a total of approx 18 Months to reach silver.
Very unfair on a new member in my opinion.
I imagine if you e-mail AerClub with the booking references of those flights you have booked in April, May, June that would have got you to Silver, asking if there is anything they can do, they might make an exception? Worth a try!