thx for the advice. i'll cross my fingers for a 125k award. i can't "push" the flights to 2010, since they will all be in the next 2 months flying back and forth to boston

definitely agree AA is nicer that they count ALL miles towards MM. that's why i've stayed w/them for so long, but they also seem to be cutting a lot of routes just like ua. sometime this month they are cutting the last flight lax to sfo which really sucks cuz i needed that for several connections, so i think the last lax to sfo flight is like 7pm now which doesn't help much!