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Old Apr 9, 2018, 1:17 pm
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phltraveler
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New York
Programs: UA Silver, Marriott LTPP, Hertz Five Star
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Well, this should be interesting. I'm reasonably expecting to get reduced judging by the way that they have chosen to make PP a discrete level at 75 nights and drop Platinum to 50 nights - makes it easy to drop the grandfathered LTP people off a level and give them a reason to chase status.

Also curious to see if it will affect the Marriott/UA partnership as a big appeal to getting LTP was the United Silver status (travel dropped off quite a bit as of late on segments/miles despite a fair number of actual nights at properties). SPG has Delta though.

Time will tell. Curious to hear if the details come out as soon as next week (per message djohannw received).

Also the decline to 10 pts/$ for all member seems to cut down on a major benefit of consolidating travel with one company, unless the upgrades go. When I was more of a road warrior the benefits of hitting the next tier for the extra points accumulated on business travel was huge.

This all assumes they don't re-value the points (a very real possibility...) which would affect all the calculations on the net positive/negative impact...
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