Originally Posted by Nagasaki Joe

I wonder if it might not have something to do with members' most common flight destinations. For example, if your most common destination is Japan, UA may have bumped you up in status because you would not have been able to fly there for a good part of the year since it has been closed to visitors, which is no fault of the member. I imagine they might have an algorithm that is weighted depending on the accessibility of certain destinations. In other words, if your common flight destinations have been accessible to you year-round, then they won't bump you up since you could have flown there if you wanted to, but others who could not get to their destinations due to lockdowns, etc. are bumped up because they couldn't go there even if they wanted to. It's just a guess.