Mar 2023. If I want to attain platinum though the deadline is Mar 2022 according to the website.
Yep so your gold is valid through to March 2023. They're basically giving you 4 months + 12 months of Gold status.
The March 2022 deadline you're seeing is the current membership year, normally you'd have to earn enough status credits in a membership year to retain status for the following, as they've already given you status through to next year then it's a moot point.
Obviously from here there are 4 options.
- I wouldn't worry about this membership year (between now and Match 2022), but if you were flying a lot you could try and reach for Platinum (obviously it's only 4 months and quite hard), if you were to get Platinum then it'd be valid from the day you got it through to March 2023.
- Once the new membership year ticks over at the end of March 2022, you could earn 600 status credits to retain Gold, this would give you gold through to March 2024.
- Once the new membership year ticks over, earn 1400 status credits giving you Platinum from the day you earn it through to March 2024.
- If you don't earn enough then you'd drop down to Silver and hold silver after March 2023 through to March 2024.
Regardless, any status credits earned between now and March 2022 won't count for retain status past 2023.