"Conventional wisdom" on FT seems to be that CO awards are hard to come by at the non-Easypass levels- even with UA in bankruptcy, UA and star offer a lot of options.

I just shifted some Amtrak to UA- handn't touched my UA account in a while, and sure hadn't thought about building up my balance in a while, but, with a possible move to SF, some UA/* flying may be in my future.