Is CX serious about dropping GR to AM this time? By current rules if you don't maintain 4 sectors you will be drop to AM, but seems like nobody did. I have many colleagues that flies other airlines, but still maintains their CX GR (one of them even stopped flying CX for 4 years! Still has a valid GR card because CX keeps sending him new ones year after year).

I guess if CX is serious, they are banking that people will love priority boarding so much that they will spend the $100 USD for it (and bring 10 people with them it seems). We shall see if that's true or not.