(1) If your status remained the same from 2014 to 2015 or changed on Feb, 1. 2015 (the status changeover date). (What is your status?)

Changed.

2014 1K> 2015 Gold.

I did not earn enough PQM to be Gold. Instead I was awarded gold due to my Million Miler status.


Did the status you earned from 2013 for 2014 change from 2014 to 2015? (may indicate trends)

2013 1K > 2014 1K > 2015 1K.

As my profile indicates, was 1K for several years: 2007 1K >...>2014 1K >2015 Gold. Prior to 2007, I was Premier Executive, from 1998 or 1997 through 2006. Before that, one or two years as Premier.


(2) What were the reasons your status changed, or remained the same on Feb. 1 ?... please expound in some detail FOR THE MOST RELEVANT TOP REASONS FOR YOU

- the 2013 award chart change: too many miles to redeem for LH F awards
- Z fares no longer eligible for GPU on LH metal
- introduction of P fares on LH and UA metal meant that prices that fared into D and C now fared into P and Z thus making it impossible to GPU on UA or LH metal. I remember the days when COS/BLR priced at $4K in Z or $5K in D and all four long haul segments upgraded.
- no more GPU at gate on LH metal. LH often doesn't release F upgrade inventory until 4 hours before flight time which is after the new cut off
- no PQM bonus for P on LH metal
- two fewer RPUs versus 4 CR1s
- domestic upgrade rate was poor
- PQDs were very complex on non UA metal and UA doesn't fly to a BLR.
- higher UC fees for lower quality product
- no chip and pin on UA credit cards
- wifi in UCs too hard to use
- due to boarding priority changes, too many times this 1K boarded to find no overhead space


(3) Did you have any particular difficulties in maintaining or increasing your 2014 status for 2015?

It would have been easy to make 1K status in 2014 for 2015. Just move two of my half dozen long haul business class round trips to UA ticket stock. I simply stopped caring about 1K status, earning M+ miles, and flying UA metal.