Underwhelmed.
I, also, was hoping for some modest improvements. In fact, it appears as though the upgrade possibilities with HP have been downgraded to only 2 hours before flight time. In the past, I beleive they were on a par with NW. This is a real issue with me since I fly HP out of PHL where they have good fares. I had realy hoped that they would have done something with their International upgrade policy. I agree that going for Platinum is now much less necessary. I look on this years program as a missed opportunity to make the best program better.