But it is interesting to see such a drop of 1Ks to be below Platinum who have reported in this thread.
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I think that the 1K folks are the ones who have seen the biggest drop in realized benefit versus expected benefit.

Upgrades used to be 90%+ for me personally, and now hover around 10%. This alone was the biggest benefit for me to have loyalty to their program. Removing that leaves me not having any real realized benefits over a gold / Plat member.

Why spend the extra revenue and give the extra loyalty for nothing in return ? - I watched the remaining 12 seats at -2hrs on a PS flight last week go to cheap Buyups with NOT ONE person on the upgrade list getting upgraded.

Those are the actions of a company with no appreciation of their 1K flyers.