Originally Posted by
snydert
True. It just feels like it cheapens things a bit.
EP has the potential to be cheapened (but not necessarily by the average traveler -- moreso just the FT-type enthusiast can manipulate their way to low spend EP without flying as much)... CK, likely not so much. The new system won't make it easy to track EQDs, but dollars and profitability are sure to remain big factors. I still don't know whether credit card spend might be some sort of selection tiebreaker, or if loyalty points will be considered, but certainly some new types of CKs could come out of this, depending on how things go.