There we go Rudi - you can be the Confucius of FlyerTalk - there's nothing in the Swiss constitution against being a philosopher-king, is there?

For MileKing's sake - perhaps we should post an "Omni" warning in the thread title when going off on tangents like this one, so that those who only want to read about FF topics can avoid anything other than chat about miles. Personally, I find that the tangential threads tell me more about the other contributers' personalities, and I like that.

Catman has definitely been less of a policeman since his trip to Maui!