Moderator, El Al and Marriott Bonvoy, FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SIN
Programs: SQ*G, Mar LTT, Hyatt Glb, AA LTG, LY, HH, IC, BA, DL, UA SLV
Posts: 12,018
After 9/11 AA extended my Plat status without requalification. What makes this Loews offer pointless is that it is coming at the end of December 2008. By now people have mostly qualified. So all the folks that worked hard to qualify now see that they didn't need to work so hard. Next year should be much harder to qualify as travel budgets may be cut. So offer me something that extends my already earned 2009 status to 2010 so that I wont be as pressured next year but will still have my status when things are booming in 2010. That is something that is helpful. But telling me after I've already qualified that you are extending for another year. Not a big bonus.