Originally Posted by
boolean64
To be fair, what was being proposed and challenged was >750 *combined* nights, which i believe is quite different than what many are proposing, which is those who had 750 nights with just SPG. combining accounts then offering LTPPE for >750 would indeed be a material lowering of the threshold whereas just applying the same MR criteria to both programs separately would not lower the threshold, merely apply the same threshold to all.
No the suggestion was to treat LT Nights from SPG and MR separate but map into combined tiers employing only these nights as a criteria., my apologizes if I was unclear.
LT SPG nights 750+ => LTPP MPG
LT MR nights 750+ => LTPP MPG
500=<LT SPG nights <750 =>LTP MPG
500=<LT MR nights <750 =>LTP MPG
250=<LT SPG nights <500 =>LTG MPG
250=<LT MR nights <500 =>LTG MPG
The objective was to create a function that maps the current members of SPG and MR into a new LT program tier without anybody feeling unfairly treated .
It would answer the question: "What will my past loyalty in program X equate to in terms of LT tier in program Z " this without any member perceiving themselve as unfairly treated.
As we can see there is no mentioning of grandfathering MR PLT into LTPP, its implied, i.e a subset of the MR members being mapped into LTPP MPG contains the set of all LT PLT MR
And no I am not oblivious to the fact that this will mint more LT tiers, the gain would be that nobody would feel unfairly treated .
Before anybody says "LTPP/LTP flooding the lounges" ....this will depend on excess minting of LTPP/LTP? The answer to that will probably remain with MAR ...
...in any case I feel that some procedure that standardize the variables measuring past loyalty at SPG and MR is needed currently that is not the case, hence the sense of unfair treatment ...