769 nights/10 years plat, currently at LTP

Can we let this thread go dormant until the sweep actually happens? How many people do we need to report that nothing’s changed?

Your guess is as bad as mine. Can obviously go either way. And to pay justice to the almost 200 posts and the title of this post: Nobody knows when or if a sweep is coming. I certainly wouldn’t count on it happening in January 2019.

Recently I saw a claim of 120,000,000 total members, which would be more than major legacy airlines. [For instance, DL SkyMiles had about 80,000,000 members at any status level (including no status and presumably including dormant accounts) shortly after the merger with NW, and certainly hasn't grown by 50% in the few following years. At that time, there were supposedly 2,000,000 total elites of all levels, and the new top DM tier (new at that time) supposedly started with 40,000 people (and there are claims that the number of DMs has doubled in about eight or ten years) where the target was 2% of elites, which of course is very different from the old legacy MR rule of PPs being the top 2% of Plats.] So I don't believe that 120m could be correct, but if we take 75m (BTW, what about the RC loyalty program? Are those people included in the MR numbers?) and then reduce it to account for people who participated in both programs, we might get 40m to 60m unique individuals with accounts. Using the DL ratios (which reflect some loyalty science views about what fraction of members should be targeted for recognition as elites), we might get a range of 1m to 2m elites of all levels (including lifetime status), where most of these elites are in lower tiers. Two percent gets us to maybe 20,000-40,000 people, which would seem to be an enormous number to cover with Ambassadors, but might be a reasonable target for PP, although if we then say that PPwithAMB is 2% of PP, the number becomes much too small to be credible, although OTOH a large fraction of PPs would cluster just over the requirement with 75-80 nights per year. Of course, I realize that hotels and airlines are different, but the common claim that 20% of customers are responsible for 80% of profits is claimed to be a rough rule that holds over a very wide range of businesses.

Hyatt seems to have a much smaller number of My Hyatt Concierges, with many of them working part time. I have some sense of those numbers and in fact once estimated the total number of Hyatt Globs in the USA/NorthAmerica, but I don't know whether it's known how many participants there were/are in HGP/WOH.

Someone here suggested that full time SPG Ambassadors used to have somewhat less than about 150 clients assigned, but the numbers have roughly doubled since the merger. I have no idea whether these numbers are even approximately accurate.