Can someone enlighten on why QF want to fiddle with this loyalty bonus? They're happy to dish out points in every each way possible, why take away the 8000 points that the lower levels hardly ever receive anyway?
Thinking back to the previous round of enhancements, where the middle tiers, especially the PS's were affected, now they want to grow that base? Perhaps they've cut the services from the last round so now they can afford to grow that base without stressing their processes?
I'm beginning to think this round is just Part 2 of the last round.
As to the lack of the information on P1, my guess is that QF haven't even worked out the full details themselves. Depending on what they have in mind, my guess is that it'll involve a 3rd party, and that takes time, not just from the training front. We know there'll be a specialised team, I just hope it won't mean the WP's will lose the Premium Desk. My guess will be some sort of concierge service that can look after all your travel needs. If that's the case though, again, it's not that special. The cliente that will be P1 will have some sort of concierge service or PA through their cc or just their job.
Hope I'm wrong on this, but I doubt there'll be many 'hard' benefits on P1, e.g. confirmable upgrades, or even system-wide upgrades. There may be some, but hardly any to make it worthwhile.
Secondly, despite what QF say, the WPs' benefits will be eroded. How can they not be when all of a sudden, there's another group of people in front of you in the queue? Now, WPs are at the front of the queues for upgrades (CLs aside), from now on, it'll be P1, THEN WP. Who will get looked after first if there're any problems? Well, P1 first, THEN WP.
I'm guessing a lot of the unwritten WP benefits will disappear. Then QF can still claim WPs haven't lost anything because it was never official anyway...
