I'm glad you had good experiences with CO and IRROPS. If CO were COnsistent about their IRROPS handling, they wouldn't have such a mixed reputation for (mis)handling them.

And while I know it's been tradition on this board for years to attack anyone who dares challenge anything CO does, it's worth pointing out that I'm not the only poster with CO IRROPS issues. Look at any issue thread on a bad weather day, and there are always posts of Star Alliance reaccommodation rules being violated, by both new and established posters.

It is a shame that as a COmmunity we can't "work together" to attempt to address it. There are times that CO gets it right, and there are other times when they don't. But they get it wrong enough that it's still a problem.