I will say, as I have several times in the past, that the airlines could fix the FF problem very easily and have us all earning and burning rapidly and reduce the burden to the airlines of all the millions of miles that are tied up in the program. All they have to do is allow you to earn flight credit for the awards that you redeem. Not miles, you understand, flight credit. So I earn 5000 EQM credit towards requalification if I redeem miles for a 5000 mile flight, but no actual miles. Many of us do not use the miles we have earned because we have to requalifiy each year. A system like this would mean that more people would try to redeem, but if the seat is going empty anyway, what is the cost to the airline?