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[*]Elimination of the 500-mile minimum. Continental will discontinue awarding a minimum of 500 base miles and Elite Qualifying Miles for flights operated by Continental, Continental Micronesia, Continental Express and Continental Connection that are less 500 miles. This applies to travel booked on or after Nov. 15, 2008 for travel on or after Jan. 1, 2009. The 500-mile minimum will still apply to flights operated by Copa Airlines, Aero República, Hawaiian Air, Island Air, U.S. Helicopter and SNCF Rail. Amtrak minimum earnings will remain the same as well. QUOTE]

1. Does this mean that if I purchase tickets before Nov 15, 2008 that are for travel through EOS, that these tickets WILL get the 500 mile minimum?

2. If 1. above is correct and I change the ticket purchased before Nov 15, 2008 inn March, is the 500 mile minimum still good on that changed ticket.

3. If 1. above is correct, you'd better get a 744 freed up on the Sat/Sun IAH-SAT or IAH-AUS to accommodate all of the MR's in Jan & Feb

This is a major hit for the Mrs and myself. Our EWR-MSY commute for 2009, planned at 20 RT's would have been EWR-IAH-MSY, RT 3830 EQM Total 76600, Platinum. Now it will be RT 2860 EQM Total 57200, Gold and 18K MR's for Plat or just fly EWR-MSY since the IAH-MSY of 152 isn't worth the time and inconvenience. That will be RT 2334 EQM Total 46680, Silver and almost 24K MR's for Plat. We'd most likely just do Gold since the additional Plat benefits for us appear to be none.