Last week when there was the published rumour of a fourth tier I posted something like, "well I would hope that they would give 2x MQM's for Biz and First", when I posted this I secretly feared that the other way would be to reduce other classes of earning. It seems that everyone is focusing on only the loss of MQM part of this, which does incredibly piss me off, almost all of my fares are M+, in fact of the 190k MQM' or so that I earned last year, only one RT from NYC to Florida was in anything less than M, with the overall split probably being something like 65%+ YBM, 30% J,D,I, Less than 5% M-. So, if I keep it up, yes I'll still be Platinum, but I will be earning far less miles, this is insane.

Why on Earth would they wait until possibly the worst time possible economically to alienate their best customers? This makes no sense. Forgetting the status thing, there are plenty of airlines out there that now offer better deals than this.