Gold for life TP requirement

It's very likely that next year I will qualify for my 10th year as gold, but will fall short on the 7500 tier points required on VS flights.

Anyone any experience on what happens here? What if it takes me another year or 2 to get the 7500 VS TP, will I get gold for life still?

[mitchja]

Reading the T&C's it does read as if you will have to carry on earning AU status until you do hit the 7500 TP's flying VS threshold.

From the T&C's and my bolding as it mentions a minimum of 10 consecutive years.

2.24. Lifetime Gold Membership

2.24.1 To qualify for Lifetime Gold status, a member must have earned a minimum of 10 consecutive calendar years at Gold status.

2.24.2 The Gold member must have earned a minimum of 7,500 tier points during their consecutive years at Gold status on VAA operated and marketed flights.

2.24.3 Transactions that are excluded from the 7,500 tier point criteria include codeshare flights, manually added tier points including gestures given to members, and bonus tier point offers.

2.24.4 If a member has been given a complimentary Gold status, this is excluded from the criteria to reach Lifetime Gold status.

Flying Club will be able to tell you the number of TP's you have earned on just VS flights.

I mentioned this on a call with a very knowledgeable agent last week. It's fine to take more than 10 years to earn the TP. But you must remain gold the whole time. So it's as we thought.