Originally Posted by joeags

Interesting, my wife is a 35K flier this year for the first time on Oct 8. North America only, non-stop on AC only. From my first and second inspections, the changes that impact her:

• No priority baggage
• Loss of 5 eUpgrade credits through bundle tiers (25+10 vs 10+20)
• Loss of token "free" miles through bundles
• Loss of 15% of bonus (50% -> 35%), ~6K miles

For her, the bigger changes, Loss of *A Gold (especially priority airport check-in) & access to *A Lounges isn't important, where I could see that impacting a lot of people. Who knows, maybe her eUpgrades will be easier if more people bail, but most people will only be bailing for 2014, so short term it's no benefit.

Definitely prefer the old version for her, but all told, it's not as bad as I could have feared... Losing the priority check-in and 3 bags on AC would have hit her much harder! Add this with Nexus, and she's buying a few extra minutes of sleep in the morning...