my reply to all of this is:

"i just flew from sea-dfw-stl-jfk-nrt (rt) on aa for $100 us, I was upgraded to F from my N class ticket, the flight attendants (all beautiful, fulbright scholars) performed kabuki theater pre-flight and I was asked if I wished to fly the plane too!" oh- did I mention I signed up for about six hundred different bonuses and my total mileage for earned for the whole shebang was 600,000 miles, of which at least half were q-points. I made EXP for only 100 dollars spent.

and this is just in the subject topic!

oh, maybe this should get moved to the AA thread.

lala