Aren't we advancing into fall?

I don't think that we'll see CO and DL roll out reciprocal upgrades.

I don't see any reason to believe that transoceanic rewards will increase in price - CO just increased the price of Hawaii J rewards (2? years ago) and it wasn't until last year that NW raised its rates to make the three US Skyteam carriers almost completely in line with one another. In addition, DL still has a 90k mile BE reward to Europe, out of line with CO/NW.

I don't expect the three US Skyteam carriers to clear all their own elites before the elites of other carriers - I expect that the upgrade priority system will remain the same.

I don't think that CO will roll out a level above Platinum this year, but the possibility certainly exists. I think that CO would be more inclined to introduce additional incentives to Plats who cross certain post-75k milestones, like an SWU at 100k, 125k, etc.

No other grand predictions come to mind at the moment.