Great change!! It should be noted that this is going to become similar to the Alaska Airlines MVP Gold upgrades that would all collectively expire at the end of every December (and still do, although they are now electronic and not good on the cheapest fares anymore which dropped their value considerably). The result of this was that the upgrades were VERY valuable in January and February and by December, you could barely find people to give them away to...during the holidays at PDX one year, my wife actually walked up to a random person waiting for an Alaska flight and handed them an upgrade that would otherwise go unusued.