Originally Posted by
villox
If you are exclusively a leisure traveler who is only getting the absolute rock bottom fares every single time, sure, maybe you won't be elite, but then maybe you don't deserve to be.
Likewise, if one's work spends $20k, but you only fly 10000 between ORD and whatever, you dont deserve to be elite, I am glad they at least kept the mileage requirements alongside spend.