I thought it would be interesting to bring this thread back up now that we've had some time to get use to the new Status tiers.

I for one am curious to see if the program is going as well as you had hoped. I will have to admit that I like the bonus miles and haven't had a complaint yet about not being able to get the seats I wanted when booking my flights.

In fact just two days ago I booked SFO-PHL and MCS/E were wide open. I has some speculations that at least the express seat would be filled with elites now that a few more have been added to the tiers lately.