Agree that the no change fee makes Airpass value proposition drop a lot.
They seem to have given up on the special shuttle pricing, which makes that more attractive.
I'd be interested in an alternative Airpass product, which would just be the ability to pre-pay $1,000 chunks of value to use like airpass but at regular prices, and have unused ticket value refunded automatically back to the airpass bank when a flight sin't taken, without having to keep track fo ticket numbers or call AA to use the credit.