This is a mixed bag for me. UDU's fill-in quite a bit of the short-haul gap for me but the short-haul F product on UA is pretty much bare-bones. One thing I learned about UDU's is that if I don't buy my ticket before the 100-hour window, the chance of my upgrade clearing, even with many F seats available, puts me at 1-6 this year. The other part that I don't know how to evaluate yet is that there is no DEQM. Combined with the 50% cut or more in CR1's and likely the loss of both DEQM-qualifed 1K's AND the inflation of upgrade instruments earned as a result, my UG success rate has been somewhat disappointing for both transcons and short-hauls. I think the combination will both open up more UDU inventory and enable some of the companion UG's to clear, offsetting some of the CR-1 losses.

I'm not happy with the loss of the CR1's but I'm also not at all happy with the results of DEQM's. If it doesn't equalize some in 2011, I'll look elsewhere. The loss of E+ would be the final straw which I am bracing myself for after the spin of today's announcement.