I've been trying to tough it out - the new UA hasn't done me too wrong so far... though the bloody RJ service network out east that gets delay upon delay for MX somewhere up the chain or waiting for crew, like the flight i just jumped out of tomorrow AM. and of course i was able to get a better routing that I could switch into knowing what fares were available via Expert Mode and then calling the change in.

Expert Mode coupled with the SDC policy is amazing - it has given me so much flexibility and it allows me to plan ahead of time without having to just hope to see what i can change into 24 hours prior which is always more of a crapshoot. This flexibility allows me to get what I need to accomplish and save my project dollars when last minute changes are needed.

I'll cry when they take the SDC policy away or amend it until it becomes much less useful. I guess if they want to monetize us even more, they'll strip that one down too. It's also one of the features I really came to love with CO.

Well, my email addressing my concern went into 1Kvoice... I did match with AA this year, only have flown them once since and will likely stay with UA at least for now because the network makes sense for my travel patterns, but this is going to make me think some more about whether I stay and start slogging somewhere else. I lived without Expert Mode on CO.com, and just did the old Upgrade Inventory Search which was really a brute force and time consuming process. But this change is baffling and definitely not one that I like.