Originally Posted by
Xandrios
I think most items have been reported here previously. However the main takeaways for me are:
- Exit row & Comfort seating will change for Gold (Free from 3 days before departure), and Silver (free from 24h before departure).
- Free stopover on pure afkl awards. Should be live now though I haven’t seen the option yet.
- Some minor Ultimate improvements regarding check in and passport controls (CDG only). Possibly additional improvements for Ams to follow.
- Platinum benefits will be improved within a year.
- XP earning on donations and SAF as we know
Personally I’m not too happy about the changes for comfort seating, as this means that every single flight will likely always go out with all Comfort seats occupied. Gone will be the days of having the middle seat empty on the first few rows of economy.
The C+ seating may have something to do with Delta trying to force uniform benefits across Skyteam FF programs. There has been plenty of discussion in the Delta forum about being "upgraded" to a middle seat in C+ when half the plane behind you was empty. If I remember correctly the solution was to introduce an upgrade preference to no be upgraded into a middle seat.