I just want to point out one thing that has been bothering me. A lot of people are saying that any of the caps whether it be 25/50/100 EQM or 30/60/120 EQS are all rather arbitrary numbers to cut off when recognizing your loyalty, and that the switch to 120 EQS was to align with the 30/60 levels established at the inferior ranks. The only problem I have with that is that to me the only number out of all of the numbers that ever totally made sense was 100 EQS. That was the number for all the travelers out there that 50 weeks of the year, without fail, they do one r/t. That takes some dedication and some persistence. It also means that pretty much 100% of their flying is on UA. At the lower levels I think it is more fair to justify 30/60 as it helps UA retain fliers though one you pass 100 EQS it just seems hard to speculate that a flier is going to jump ship very easily. It is a shame that UA is making it hard for that category of traveler to qualify for 1K.

And just for example, who is more loyal in the following scenario, you decide:

• A person who flies 50 times a year SFO-ORD on UA
• A person who flies 8 r/t SFO-HKG gets 1K status, then switches to AA and flies SFO-HKG 8 more times that year and get top AA status and maximizes SWU usage on the two carriers, for a total of 16 r/t