I gather Hawaii is lovely in March.

I can see this is quite a severe ratcheting up of GGL's entry requirements, so I imagine some people will be very unhappy with this. The only existing members affected are European members and those who bobble along just above and below 3k, sometimes qualifying in some pairs of years, sometimes not. It also looks to me that the 2 year counting frame is difficult to administer hence the 5k entry criteria.

I guess the real issue would be those who have travel spread over the year and were targeting on getting 3k around September 2015 time, having already got 3k in the bank from last year. The one thing we can't change is our membership year, so it would have been better to have set the April deadline as 8 December so that there can't be any hint of lost ambition.

One option, I guess, would have been to turn CCR, which is currently a benefit bauble, not a level, into a level in its own right, so 2 jokers (etc) to CCR; maybe 1 joker and free changes to GGL lite?