Originally Posted by
ubernostrum
I buy my share of tickets in F, on US. Response to all this is "meh". Everybody knew mileage devaluation was coming. Don't know enough about Explorer to have an opinion, but what I read of it makes me lean towards believing the people who've been posting that it was just a bunch of loopholes getting abused.
Certain destinations were only available using an Explorer award.
I think people are more concerned with the stealth of the announcement (not one nanosecond of advance warning) rather than the actual cancellation of the award itself.
UA posted their redemption/fee changes months in advance of them going into effect.