I hate it, but I agree with this. My fares have dropped dramatically this year, and as a result, I've gone from riding up front >75% of the time to just under 50%. I'd really like to be able to "force" a B fare out of my corporate travel group, but that's just not happening any time soon, though the price difference tends to be less than a change fee. Prior to the EQM sale, I was actually getting a little worried about re-making platinum for next year since all of my international trips have been canceled, and I am hitting a few half-credit fares every now and then.

That being said, prior to the latest traveling craziness, the threshold for Pt was too low, and I still think the same, even if it puts me in greater jeopardy of missing it. If I can hang on to get full credit for BIS, then I am good to upwards of a 100K threshold. After that, I drop back to Gold and get to grumble a lot. I'm not sure that 100K is really the right target like DL used to be and AA and UA still are, but certainly something like 30k/60k/90k has a nice symmetry to it. I'd hate to be a person struggling to make 25k, though, and have the brass ring pulled that much further away. Certainly 25K/50K/90K tiers creates too many Golds. I wonder if they would consider an even higher tier beyond Pt, and no, I don't mean Chairman's Circle.