Amex Platinum? This is how to get your Accor Platinum status extended

As I discussed last week, Le Club AccorHotels is changing the rules on how you earn status starting from 1st January 2017.

More pressingly, it is withdrawing Platinum status from American Express Platinum charge card holders from 15th April.

My wife and I both have Accor Platinum status via our Amex Platinum cards.  Our status was due to expire in October 2016.

This was unfortunate.   Anyone who has an expiry of date of 1st January 2017 or later has had their status extended to 31st December 2017.  We just missed out.

So, two days ago, I went back to the Amex website and re-applied for Le Club AccorHotels Platinum status for both of us on our existing Accor accounts.  This is despite the fact that we both already have it.

What happened?

Both my wife and I now have Accor expiry dates of 30th April 2017.

Since, in theory, all status moves will now take place at the end of the year and not midyear, my gut feeling is that my membership will end up being extended to 30th December 2017.

I can’t complain about that.

So …..

If:

you have Accor Platinum status via American Express, and

your membership year expires before 31st December 2016

I strongly recommend going onto the Amex Platinum website and re-applying for Accor Platinum.  It will push out your expiry to 30th April 2017 and, hopefully, a later extension to 31st December 2017.

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