United finally announced that they’re shifting to a revenue-based earning scheme for 2015. Given the announcement looks like a copy-and-paste (and a find-and-replace of “Delta” for “United”) from Delta’s announcements, it’s surprising it took them this long.
We knew this was coming. Some are talking about the destruction of the program, but fortunately, credit card spending will save us.
This change might finally spur me to get on the Delta bandwagon, though. At least with them, I can earn elite qualifying miles entirely from credit card spending with American Express.