Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer (Post # 3260)
Back when you earned it, the requirement was only 750 nights.
The restoration proposal (1,000 nights and 10 years Titanium) would actually make it
tougher to earn than when you did.
Originally Posted by
ftrichard (Post # 3261)
Given that the discussion on the restoration of LTT erupts in regular cycles and I've never commented on it before, I'll make a few observations which I think are logical and do not specifically benefit me so there's no personal bias. FIrst, Marriott isn't counting Titanium years. It would either have to reconstruct this data from its database of merged Marriott Rewards and SPG information or use some proxy data that is available and updated today like LTP years. In my estimation, reconstructing a LTT count and making it publicly available would be wildly inaccurate given what we know about the messiness of the legacy data and result in an unprecedented number of customer complaints. Bonvoy's customer service agents would be entering the Kingdom of Hades if Marriott attempted this. They won't. . . .
It has now been almost five years since Marriott offered life-time Titanium (LTT) status.
Were Marriott to reinstate it, they could trot it out as "new" or "new and improved", with whatever criteria they wished. The whole purpose, from Marriott's perspective, is to drive new business during the qualification period, and retain at least some residual business during the lifetime benefit period.
No one would flinch at a 1,000 night requirement, as shown by Hilton and Hyatt.
As for the Marriott information technology (IT) data deficiencies, those can easily be remedied by starting the new LTT program at whenever their list of accurate 75-night years begins. (It is a "new" program, after all.)
For example: 1,000 nights and 10 years Titanium since 2015.