US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - What to do

I'm at a loss. Here is my situation. Advice is appreciated. Do I jump ship or ride it out?

-72 segments ytd
-cp status guarenteed through 2/28/06(if we make it that long)
-170k in the account(have burned mad miles to sfo and lgw in last 8 months)
-Usual destinations include:

msy--2-3 times a month
sfo
iad
buf
mci
pit
dfw
iah
lax
bwi
msn
mdt
lgw

any thoughts? I'm a GSO dweller, so that makes options limited as I do NOT want to drive to CLT under any circumstances

Simply by putting the 1 class option on the table, US has pretty much committed to it. If they decide to stay 2 class, by the time they make that decision, they may not have any FF left to save. They've already struck a number of blows - box lunches in F, a reconfigured 757 from F24 to F8, more RJ, etc.,etc. This is the final blow for me. IMHO, I'd start looking around. If another airline is smart, they should offer a competitive upgrade - I'm hoping it would include a 1K match.

If anyone hears of any such thing, please post!

Sit tight. Who knows what'll happen.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bofie:
Sit tight. Who knows what'll happen.</font>

I'm basically in the same boat, sfeinberg. I'm following the above advice. None of the other airlines are exciting me (if so, I probably would have left by now.) I'm just flying US as usual and hoping for the best.

History will record that what ends up happening was probably unavoidable, but that no brain surgeons were in the crowd at the end. Gone is the flying luxury apartment, with cuisine prepared under direction of the famous Chefs of the world. Instead, you are standing in a dingy airport in your stocking feet, everything you have of value in full view, while perfect strangers are rummaging through your bags somewhere downstairs,leaving a note that says they can do anything they want because there are a few million guys in the desert whose idea of an orgasmic experience is to put a planeload of you through the window of a 50 story building. As you savor those vacuum packaged potato chips on that 6 AM flight, you realize that the real end game for the geniuses who have so alienated their workforces that checking in for a flight now ranks as a contact sport, and whose idea of a strategic plan is to sell more tickets for less than it costs to fly the plane, is actually the honing and development of the perfect tool...an RJ that can make it nonstop from Philly to Rome, but can still be flown by someone making less than a New York cabby. Wilbur and Orville, wherever you are, you probably wish you'd been in refrigerators. Burn the miles.

deelmaker, that is rather, well, dark. Not that I disagree. Sort of reminds me of the scene in "This is Spinal Tap" where they are all standing by Elvis's grave and one says: "This puts it all in perspective" and his friend says "a bit to much f****** perspective if you ask me"

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