why because you want to spend more to hit AQD? Or are you becoming more of a "free agent" because of AQD?

Tangent...but I tihnk the airlines (not just AC) pushing through these revenue requirements are timing it badly. Each year they need to do something else to squeeze out more revenues from existing clients (with AQD an attempt to force FFers to spend more with AC). In a stable environment that's fine. But in this case, you've got travel budgest being cut and a host of other factors that it'll probably backfire on them.