Originally Posted by
Stranger
I could not believe it either. But, as quoted above somewhere:
Ending the year at 2.6 MM, will probably take me one more year until I reach 3 MM. Four instead of three?
Ditto. Race you.
Originally Posted by
taupo
I do not pretend to know exactly how AC makes money from cobranded CC's but surmise that more cards in circulation are better than less, and that higher spend is better than lower.
Given they have dissuaded spend beyond $125,000pa with the new program, how is this to their benefit?
As someone mentioned way up thread, expect a few tweaks to the program before January 01, 2026.
Hoping the CC spend/SQC earn will be one of those tweaks
I suspect that most credit card users who are not visiting this thread are more focused on the points they earn that the SQM/SQC, so they won't notice a change.
Originally Posted by
farnorthtrader
Did I miss something? Is there somewhere where it says that gifting status will work differently next year, so that they receiver gets the status for the balance of current year and the entirety of the following year, instead of just the balance of the current year?
Yes. If you gifted status this year, you can choose at the beginning of the year and the person has status until Jan 31, 2026. Starting next year, you can only gift 50K status after you have earned 130,000 SQC, which will likely be mid or late 2026 for most SE's. That means your nominee is SOL for most of 2026.
Originally Posted by
tcuhrc
Clearly not the case if the author had bothered to look up a sample itinerary or two and not default to this assumption. Imagine a random person who books YYZ-YVR in J 4 times a year. Said consumer will not be pleased if they check their balance and find out that their flight next year earns 2/3 the points that of this year (because they made 25K this year, it'll be 1/3 in 2027), and they go from just making 25K to nothing.
not so sure about any of this... (I know Opinion/Special to the G&M = ad, but this is pretty egregious regardless)
If we assume $2,000 round trip in J between YYZ-YVR, then the person would earn 8,000 SQC per round trip - far more than the ~6,100 SQM their earn today and if they are SE they would earn 12,000 points versus 6,100 today. If you don't have status it will suck.
Originally Posted by
DistressedAssetInvestor
Looking at the 125k SQC requirement for SE vs the old $20k SQD requirement, would I be correct in thinking that with the premium credit card, and sufficient business spend to max out the 25k SQC earnings on that card that as an SE:
- The 125,000 SQC drops to about 113,000 SQC with the 10% head start? (if no other rollover help)
- The 113,000 SQC drops 25k SQC to 88,000 SQC with an annual spend of $125k on the premium card
- The 88,000 SQC is equivalent to a $22,000 annual spend on Flex+ fares... equating to a 10% increase from before (again for premium card users)
I imagine SE's will mostly choose the Priority rewards benefits or other at each threshold and not the 2500 sqc benefit?
If my understanding is incorrect, encourage anyone to help set it straight. Thank you!
I think your understanding is correct - in my opinion, these changes will not significantly impact
most SE's ability to continue to be SE's but there will be a lot fewer lower tier members.