Originally Posted by
Jainzar
It used to be 92 segments before the last major program change. So it seems like they wanted to enlarge the Platinum rank.
Actually, that would only hold true if the member body is flying the same patterns from year to year.
Perhaps they analysed before the change and found out that the number of customers who fly a high number of segments had gone down. So the change could just as easily have been an adaption to new travel patterns.