Delayed Lufthansa Elite Status Changes To Be Announced In December, Start January 2024

Update: Lufthansa had planned elite status changes, first leaked at the end of 2019 and meant to go into effect in 2021. That plan was delayed by the pandemic and concomitant extensions of status. But now it is back on track.

Award charts will not be changed at that time.

The original reporting is still going on.

I wrote about the leaks a week and a half ago. It is now confirmed. The letters were sent to customers to let them know about the changes they would be making.

• Points replace status miles. (Joint-venture partner United just did this and points was a euphemism for ‘money’)
• Status lasts one year instead of two years.
• Lufthansa Group airlines will count more towards status than partners. United did this, too, and I’d bet that flights with United count in a similar fashion because of the joint venture.
• A lifetime elite status program will be formalized
• Elimination of Status Stars because those benefits are ‘complicated’

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