I was glancing through the inflight magazine as we came in to land this evening, and I almost died of fright (well, OK, not really).

I noticed in the "here are all the miles that you can earn if you join MP" example, a most shocking and worrying phrasing had appeared since the last time I looked - to the effect that the 1k online CC booking bonus applied only the first time.

Is this a harbinger of a loss of this most valuable of earning opportunities ? Or am I reading too much into the phrasing ? I did a quick search around the site and could not find any reference to the 1k online CC bonus - but then, I'm not sure where it was previously advertised.

Please tell me it isn't so ! The 1k online CC bonus is worth around 50k miles per year to me. By comparison the upgrade from 2/$ to 3/$ was worth maybe 10k miles.