Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
This change makes the whole set of changes more fair as customers who acquired 2011 1K status under the assumption of the current rules get what they expected and paid for. But more importantly, it also shows that UA (new and/or old) is listening to complaints/concerns.
Listening to customers is indeed the nice highlight of this. There's still a benefit reduction in 2012 for MP (and improvement for OP [at least in terms of CR1, I'd say SWU differences are a wash]). But there is at least a year of CR1s as originally specified by the program
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