Wow, maybe I did just get lucky then. Did you book the flight? Maybe if you try to call back in you'll get a different person and maybe get away with it since it's not yet 4/15?

I HATE that they made the change to eliminate inherited status. My husband is actually the GS in our family. Unless it's an international flight, his company pays for where ever he is going whether it's home or elsewhere so he never uses the points himself. Yet he earned the status on those points, and likes the comfort of knowing when his family is flying that they'll be taken care of.

If he does use points himself, it's going to be an international flight, in which case the GPUs actually mean something to him.. but he's also never going to be paying out of pocket for that trip since it's the whole point of having the reward points.