Originally Posted by yvr76

A lot of what's been going on over the last few years has been unsustainable. They've allowed up to 200k rollover, which has given a lot of people almost immediate ~80+ threshold e-credits, ~50k+ bonus threshold Aeroplan miles, and banked SE status if you do just 50K of flying. I'm surprised they launched the program like this in the first place. Having rollover cap at 25k or 50k would have been more reasonable, and perhaps prevented their need to overcorrect like this.

Sure it's harder to get status now, and if I don't qualify for SE, that's fine. There's a new spend threshold, and I might not make the cut.

My main issue with the changes is what's happening to the MM program and select benefits. Putting aside the loss of COS bonus, once you get there, if you're retired you get almost no e-credits. So they've basically stripped out upgrades unless you're still flying regularly with them. And at 2MM/3MM you also lose the ability to nominate 35K/50K respectively.

Outside of needing to deal with a bunch of SE banked years floating around in the system (which will self-correct over a few years), I can't think of a reason for them to remove select benefits except to ensure that MMs don't get to use them unless they still keep up a consistent level of flying.

If they want to keep down this route, one way to mitigate this is to give MMs some SQC at the start of each year depending on their status. Maybe 10K for 1MM, 20K for 2MM and 30K for 3MM.