Why on Earth would I come back?

KLM is once again marketing the added value of comfort without providing any real comfort at all.

So what do I get? Let's see: I want to go to IAH from AMS in Y.

On the website the fee in Feb 2010 is around 500 euro.
I earn only 25% FB Miles.
I pay another 50 euro's and get 50% Miles
I pay another 370 euro's and get 75% and if I pay 2,478 euro's they will give me the pleasure of earning 100% miles.

So then I want to sit in their "comfort" section. If I pay the 2,478 for a Y ticket I can sit in the comfort section for free, But if I'm traveling on a ticket with more restrictions I have to pay around 300 euro's extra.

Being Gold would save me 1/2.

So I can pay upwards of 300 euro's extra for an extra inch or four, and more recline (and the chance that KLM has not changed the monitors in the seatbacks, making them unviewable) and still earn no extra miles!

Or.....I can take that 300 euros and put it towards a second Y ticket on CO (same dates = 400 euros) where I'll earn 100% miles, and get an extra inch of pitch.

KLM has done a great job in keeping me away.