Lotusmiles Enewsletter

Policy change on Membership Tier Qualification

Lotusmiles has changed the policy on Membership tier qualification as of January 1, 2024 to allow members to easily upgrade their card tiers when buying tickets and flying at flexible fares.

The changes include the following key changes.

A lower number of qualifying segments in the criteria on the renew and upgrade of Platinum, Gold and Titanium membership cards

Membership Tier Current qualifying criteria (Segment) Qualifying criteria  from January 1, 2024 (Segment)
Platinum 50 45
Gold 30 27
Titanium 20 18
A change in the coefficient rate on Vietnam Airlines flights in line with the trend of many other airlines in the world: Incentives are applied based on the ticket fares.
Airfares from Economy Flex and above will mean a higher mileage accrual rate.
  Applicable to tickets issued/exchanged from January 1, 2024
  Please refer to the Accrual charts of Vietnam’s domestic flights here and international flights here.
A change in the coefficient rate on SkyTeam flights:  
From January 20, 2024, Lotusmiles members with Economy Class tickets taking SkyTeam flights will have their qualifying miles added with a coefficient of 0.5 instead of 1 as before. The rules for First Class, Business Class and Premium Economy tickets remain unchanged.
Please refer to the details here.