From today's Onemileatatime post, seems Untied Gold and up will get new Marriott Platinum status, possible at least by year end :

https://onemileatatime.boardingarea....status-update/

There’s an update there. Nights earned will determine status in the new program, but not linking accounts. This means that SPG Gold members who earned Marriott Gold from linking accounts will not receive Marriott Platinum status come August. However, United RewardsPlus members would earn Marriott Platinum status, since they didn’t earn the status by linking their SPG account.

Most travelers are actually willing to pay $15-20 for breakfast. Nobody, to a first approximation, is willing to pay $79, $99, or $129 for an E+ seat, which is why UA tries to sell one to every single person that books a ticket, gives them out for free to GS (+ 8 companions), 1K (+8 companions), Platinum (+8 companions), and Gold (+1 companion), and still may have some left at T-24. It's not worth nothing, but it's certainly not worth anywhere near what UA charges.

IMO the late checkout benefit is analogous to E+ at T-24. Neither is guaranteed, and some people may not value the extra time, just like some may not value the extra legroom, but it can be useful to have.

For one year. After that it will presumably revert to new Marriott Gold.

Is that a guess or have you some new information to back that up?

Isn't it from August -> December? So 5/6 months? Then everyone must qualify (or get it via United, whomever, etc) as of January and onward for their status?

And it definitely paid off for them in my case.
I've used Hertz and Marriott a LOT more than I used to before getting status with them through UA.

Marriott clearly stated that the Current Marriott Gold -> New Marriott Platinum bump, which is what we're discussing above, is a one-time deal. So no, it's not new information, but it's not in dispute either.*

It's possible that Marriott might choose to start giving UA elites the (new) Marriott Platinum tier, just like it's possible that UA might choose to start giving Marriott elites the UA Gold tier, but that would be totally independent of what's being discussed in the linked blog post above, and I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

* To be clear on the details, the blog post above is discussing the status of current Marriott Gold members who have Marriott Gold by virtue of being SPG Gold. The question is whether they qualify for the complimentary one-year upgrade from current Marriott Gold to new Marriott Platinum – i.e., can you go SPG Gold -> current Marriott Gold -> new Marriott Platinum (for one year). The answer is no, that is a match too far. However, since UA Gold was matching into current Marriott Gold, they do qualify for the one-year bump. Presumably if UA had instead been partners with SPG prior to the merger, then UA elites would not have qualified for the one-year bump.

Yes, you're right, it's really more like a six-month bump.

So while I agree with this speculation as the likely outcome, it is speculation and no new information. So we need to wait to hear from MR

Sure, anything could happen. My point is simply that the Onemileatatime post should not change your expectations about whether MR will start granting UA elites Platinum status in 2019 and beyond by one iota.

Especially since omaat first said RewardsPlus wouldn't get Platinum at all.

Especially since omaat, like the rest of us, has no clue or insight on what is going to happen, and is only doing posts to push credit card referrals.

Sometimes I wonder even if United and Marriott know already what the plan is for 2019.

I doubt they've talked about it. In previous years they always renew in January for the next year.

that's exactly what i said, yet, everyone seems to have expected them to have figured this out right when the merger details were announced lol

No more complimentary breakfast? Then I am done with Marriott. Will transfer my SPG miles through Chase to some airline program and not look back. Was good as long as it lasted.
Unfortunately nowadays good things don't last very long anymore.

Frequentmiler claims that in future UA elites will only get the new devalued Marriott Gold:
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.c...before-august/

Is there actually any information/confirmation on this yet?

No. No information either way. I wouldn't hold your breathe though. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.