Good point.

Well, had a well-documented emergency landing on AA at JFK post 9/11 by about a year. smoke in plane, screaming, the works, so naturally, haven't flown AA since.

AS is out as I rarely go to PDX or SEA.

Family lives in ROC/BUF and plenty of friends in PHL/EWR/NYC area, trips to CHI now and then and pretty regular short hops to LAS/RNO/OAK/SFO, etc. Likely make it to MIA/RSW once a year as well.

I've earned the most miles w/ DL but if I wanted to fly to siberia on January on a Wednesday red-eye, they'd still want 50K miles. LOL.