What are we going to call this level?......Platinum Plus
Premier Executive 100K or 1K for short.
The "1K" brand is pretty strong.
The changes to CR1s suck, they'd be fine under the following scenarios:
For 75k+, 10(up to 4x)-15k(unlimited) BIS on UA/CO metal, counter starting once you are Platinum.
Otherwise there's basically no earning in Q1, only a few in Q2.
The SWUs are now aligned, again, not in the best way, especially since non-elites can still upgrade the lower buckets with cash+miles, if they're going to bar SWU from the lowest fare buckets, they can at least allow a nominal (say $200 P/D) fee to upgrade <W fares with SWU.
The "best of both worlds" is starting to look a lot more like star trek than what most people would consider "best" of both worlds. :/