I will speak for myself, no I havent read the posts over there and it really doesnt matter much, what some FTers think

Very few if any FTer will pay the $15 for checking a bag on a Carrier , not cause they have Status, or dont check bags, but cause if they have to pay they wont fly with that Carrier if they can avoid doing so. Yet the Carriers are racking it in, in the multi Millions of $$$$ on the bag fees alone.

Most people flying for business reasons will probably spend the say $20k a yr on tkts, who will lose are us leisure travelers (people not traveling for biz), or their company will spend enough and have it in their contract with the Carrier that they can get x employess comped top level status

thusly the AF Group wont be in trouble due to FTers decding not to fly on them for whatever reason