Royal Club

Oneworld · Tier Miles · Rolling 12-month window — only points earned in the past year count.

Elite tiers

Royal Club tier ladder
Tier	Tier Miles required from zero	To retain
Silver Jay	15,000	12,000
Gold Sparrow Oneworld Sapphire	40,000	30,000
Platinum Hawk	65,000	—

Gold Sparrow confers Oneworld Sapphire — the lowest tier in this programme with alliance-wide lounge access. Alliance mapping last verified 4 August 2026. Conditions beyond the threshold: Segment alternative: 30 segments in 12 months; retention is lower (30,000 tier miles or 26 segments).. Compare lounge access across programmes →

Keeping a tier is a different bar from reaching it. The last column is what Royal Club publishes for a member who already holds the tier, over the same qualification window as the reaching figure; a dash means no separate retention threshold has been captured for that rung, not that renewal is automatic.

Requirements beyond the threshold

Silver Jay — At least 4 Royal Jordanian flights — still in the published terms, though RJ appears not to have enforced this since late 2024.
Gold Sparrow — At least 10 Royal Jordanian flights — still in the published terms, though RJ appears not to have enforced this since late 2024.
Platinum Hawk — At least 20 Royal Jordanian flights — still in the published terms, though RJ appears not to have enforced this since late 2024.

These apply in addition to the Tier Miles figure, so reaching the number alone does not confer the tier.

Fully published on rj.com (Aug 2026): Silver Jay 15,000 tier miles or 14 segments; Gold Sparrow 40,000 or 30 segments; Platinum Hawk 65,000 or 46 segments. Maintenance: Silver 12,000 or 12 segments / Gold 30,000 or 26 segments over 12 months; Platinum 110,000 or 80 segments. The window is ROLLING — the T&Cs measure progression over 'a consecutive twelve months', not a fixed membership year. The Platinum maintenance window is 24 MONTHS on the T&Cs' own prose (capture S, 30 Aug 2026): the contradiction is INSIDE the T&Cs document — its qualification table's 'To Maintain / Period' cell reads 12 months, but the prose two paragraphs on says Platinum Hawk Tier Miles 'are valid for two Membership Years' and deliberately contrasts that against the lower tiers' one — load-bearing drafting, corroborated by the marketing page's '110,000 tier miles or 80 segments over 24 months'. Two of three published statements say 24, and the 12 in the table cell reads as a copy-down from the Silver/Gold rows above it; both readings stay disclosed here. Segment counting has a published trap: Amman–Aqaba, Amman–Tel Aviv and any R-class RJ ticket count as HALF a segment. Bronze Sunbird is the enrolment tier with no threshold; RJ also sells Tier Miles outright. The live calculator at fly.rj.com is the system of record for earning — the published Earn Miles page is stale (it has no Premium Economy band at all): own metal pays W 200% and C 250% Tier Miles with G in the 25% promo band, the Tier Miles ladder is tier-independent and a flat percentage of sector distance (the fare-family × tier table is Award Miles only), and Award and Tier Miles credit identically on every partner flight sector (verified against a live member statement, Aug 2026). Partner coverage now spans 16 oneworld carriers from the validated calculator capture; Alaska-operated sectors inherit Alaska's 500-mile per-segment minimum (S7 and LATAM Brasil are captured but outside the operating roster). Tier Miles are earned only on RJ + oneworld flights (codeshares must be oneworld-marketed AND -operated). On the own-metal minimums of 4/10/20 RJ flights at Silver/Gold/Platinum: the requirement remains in the Royal Club terms, unchanged since 2018 and live as of 31 August 2026 — but Royal Jordanian appears not to have enforced it since around November 2024. Its own tier pages state only the mileage and segment thresholds, its service centre has repeatedly told members that oneworld partner flights alone qualify, and one member reportedly reached Platinum Hawk on 46 Iberia segments in 2025. We keep the requirement shown, because the terms are what Royal Jordanian can enforce at any moment without notice — treat a pure-partner path as possible but not guaranteed. NB stale /royal-plus/ URL paths on rj.com are remnants of the programme's pre-2022 name (Royal Plus became Royal Club), not a pending rename — the 9 Aug 2026 'mid-rename' reading had the direction backwards.

Earning reference

Booking classes

Every Tier Miles rate, by booking class

The full reference table for Royal Club: each operating carrier crossed with each booking class, the rate we hold, and the earning model behind it. Only classes with a rate we have captured from the programme are listed — nothing is filled in with a guess.

Open the booking-class table →

→ Calculate your Tier Miles in the live tool

Status matches into Royal Club

Grants Silver Jay, Gold Sparrow · Run by statusmatch.com / Loyalty Status Co. · USD 149 for Gold Sparrow, USD 49 for Silver Jay ("unless otherwise stated"); no regional variation published. · UK eligible · 12 months from approval · Checked 4 September 2026

Air Canada — Aeroplan Elite 25K or Elite 35K → Silver Jay (Status match)
Air Canada — Aeroplan Elite 50K, Elite 75K or Super Elite 100K → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Air France / KLM — Flying Blue Gold, Platinum or Ultimate → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Air France / KLM — Flying Blue Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
Accor Live Limitless (ALL) Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond or Accor Plus → Silver Jay (Status match)
Hilton Honors Silver, Gold or Diamond → Silver Jay (Status match)
World of Hyatt Discoverist, Explorist or Globalist → Silver Jay (Status match)
IHG One Rewards Silver Elite, Gold Elite, Platinum Elite, Diamond Elite or Royal Ambassador → Silver Jay (Status match)
Lufthansa / SWISS / Austrian — Miles & More Frequent Traveller → Silver Jay (Status match)
Lufthansa / SWISS / Austrian — Miles & More Senator or HON Circle → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Middle East Airlines — Cedar Miles Gold, Platinum or Presidents Club → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Middle East Airlines — Cedar Miles Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
Marriott Bonvoy Silver Elite, Gold Elite, Platinum Elite, Titanium Elite or Ambassador Elite → Silver Jay (Status match)
EgyptAir Plus Elite, Gold or Platinum → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
EgyptAir Plus Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
SAS — EuroBonus Gold, Diamond or Pandion → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
SAS — EuroBonus Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
Saudia — Alfursan Gold → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Saudia — Alfursan Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
Turkish Airlines — Miles&Smiles Classic Plus → Silver Jay (Status match)
Turkish Airlines — Miles&Smiles Elite or Elite Plus → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
TAP Air Portugal — Miles&Go Gold or Navigator → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
TAP Air Portugal — Miles&Go Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
Air Europa — SUMA Gold or Platinum → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Air Europa — SUMA Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)
Virgin Atlantic — Flying Club Gold → Gold Sparrow (Status match)
Virgin Atlantic — Flying Club Silver → Silver Jay (Status match)