This is not good at all for me. I'm Platinum but earn the majority of my SCs on international flights with partners.  I manage to rack up my 8 eligible sectors flying domestically but not much more. Under this new system I can see members like me being knocked back to silver in quick ti...

This could be bad news for anyone that works for a company that only pays for business class for flights over 8 hours :-)

Small clarification – The article mentions that Velocity Platinums do not have “any option in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane ahead of United Airlines flights”.  Actually, according to the Velocity website, “Velocity Gold and Platinum members departing on a same day Uni...