Originally Posted by
Kacee
The opposite for me.
I find 75K miles not too difficult to reach, so I've viewed Plat as the safety fall-back if I couldn't make 1K.
Now I'm more incentivized to reach 1K (or, alternatively, to just to bag the whole status thing and focus on accumulating Chase and AMEX points).
I was about to post nearly the same thought.
The drop from 1K to Platinum formerly felt like a gentle decline; now it feels like a precipice.