Originally Posted by
unavaca
That's a red herring. Sure, you can earn them for 40k, but even under the current system, you're not going to earn 8 more next year, as you'll have lost 1K status. Even if you were doing 40k via EQS, you're still 20 EQS short.
No, I'd have 1K status. I just earned 1K last month and will keep it through all of 2011.
Under the 2010 rules, I'd earn 8 CR-1's in 2011 by flying 10k miles per quarter, or 40k total. I may or may not fly enough in 2011 to keep my 1K status for 2012 but that's not relevant.
Under the newly announced rules, I have to fly at least 75k miles in 2011 before I earn any CR-1's at all. That's a big loss.