Received a letter today outlining four program changes and how they may benefit or be modified for Plats...

Segment Qualification...old news

WorldPerks administrative fees...referred to in another thread. Plats are exempt from these.

Enhanced Elite upgrades by preventing the lower caste, non-elites from upgrading cheap fares with miles. I've been nearly 100% anyway.

Circle trip awards. You can now book domestic only circle trip awards. They will cost 37,500 miles. In the example they gave they used MSP-NYC-DTW-MSP with allowed stopovers in NYC and DTW. No mention what happens if you live in IND and want to go to BOS and NYC. Does one of the stopovers have to be at a hub or connection point? We'll see.

I guess in a year when the airlines are struggling, it's difficult to expect much in the way of enhancements altho' the FF programs are one of the most profitable areas of the airline business.

The elite "improvements" will be that things won't get worse for us as fast as the non-elites. Kind of a left handed enhancement, but what the heck.