Jaimito's right. I've loaded up on SCL tix. Better still for GIG and GRU book on CO if you can and colonize their cabins while the differential still exists in our favor. You had to figure this was coming with recent SkyTeam partner activity: or what snake would call CO's recent "enhancements" to this "Southern South America" routing together with DL's earlier inflation to 50k. In my view the 35k awards were the best bang-for-buck in the WP system. And the increase in WBC to Europe hurts: those were a good deal. So, two strikes on my account.

But.... it's not all bad. Have you guys noticed the appearance of a new 20,000 mile award from Mexico to "Northern South America:" I believe that mirrors CO OP policy although maybe we can get the awards more easily through WP. For those of us within driving range of airports like HMO - not much further than PHX from my house - this is really good news. Now we can redeem 20k awards to LIM and CCS, or 40k in J! I'll let you know how this goes when I attempt it on January 1st