I imagine many of you ended up with CO as your FF airline from your association with Eastern like I did. While not all my remembrances of EA are fond, many are and I mention a couple here in honor of some of the threads from the 90s that are receiving new posts.

Did anyone take advantage of the unlimited flying specials Eastern offered in the late 70s and early 80s where you could fly anywhere Eastern flew (which included just about everywhere except the moon, Borman notwithstanding) for three weeks for one price. I took full advantage of this program for several years, visiting family in NY and Okla, going to the Caribbean, visiting friends allover the U.S. The first time they offered this in 1977 or 1978, the price for three weeks of unlimited flying was $249!!! The only bad part was that flying out of Seattle the connection for almost everything was through Atlanta. I ended one whirlwind three week trip visiting a friend in San Francisco for New Years. I flew back to Seattle via . . . why Atlanta, of course. My wife and I took the 4.5 hour flight SFO to ATL (first class upgrade - see below) and hopped off the plane, expecting a two hour layover before our flight to Seattle. Turned out an earlier flight to Seattle (which had been scheduled to leave an hour before we arrived) was late and hadn't left yet. There was room available (in first class no less) so ten minutes after we got off the first flight we were on the second one. I recall waking up to the pilot's voice telling us we were starting our descent into Seattle and telling us that until a half hour earlier Seattle and all near by airports were fogged in and the nearest open airport was . . . San Francisco. Lucky we missed a return to SFO on that trip.

The other fond memory was something called "Executive Flyer" status or something similar. Basically as an executive flyer you were entitled to a space available first class upgrade for yourself and a companion. Since this was well before the time when first class was used to reward frequent fliers there was almost always space available - I think I failed to get an upgrade on maybe 2 flights out of probably 100 or more I flew during this time. Coupled together, first class and unlimited flights? How many million flight miles would one have to have under their belt these days to obtain such a bennie? Fifty million?