for prestige, the benefits this year are similar to last years. I know that they are no garuntees on the benefits for the next year, but basically they raised the bar for prestige to 25K, but still have to honour the members who got 18K - 25K. I for one earned 18K on domestic flights, given a few were on paid J, hence extra miles and the only reason I got to 18K, but the others mostly earned 50 percent of miles flown. For AC/AP to justify giving me 2 SWU's for over 5K of revenue that could have just as easily gone to WS is insulting. They only use that they will have for me is for a YVR - YUL flight in which I will already have to spend a few extra hundread dollars on just to get an eligable fare, that doesn't even garuntee the upgrade. Priority checkin isn't that useful these days with web checkin and the kiosks at the airport. Even a couple of MLL certs would be a nice gesture.