Originally Posted by Finland Station

Correct. Arguably, the TP game has distorted the business for too long and incentivised perverse behaviour. There'll be tumbleweed a-blowing through those West Coast stalwarts like RNO, SAT, TUS etc from April.

Whilst the principle of revenue-based status seems to me to have been inevitable, I am staggered by the thresholds. People who have never gone on a TP run are not going to notice a change, but those who have grown accustomed to earning Silver each year with a long haul or two in J and a few CE trips are going to really notice the change.

Perhaps there is a part 2 of the plan, which sees the arrival of a bountiful new supply of TPs as yet unannounced. The obvious answer was credit card spend, but that is capped at a meagre amount. So I am left perplexed. No one will care about the TP runners, but the squeals of anguish of the Leisure Silvers I suspect will be amplified.