Originally Posted by dave2003

I totally agree. I keep hoping desperately that they'll offer an alternative.

I've already cut back my travel about 60-70%, which really is hurting business but everything I do is mostly last-minute and subject to very high rates of change (I'd say I ended up staying on the first flight I picked maybe 1/3 of the time last year tops).

I'm AA locked (70% of travel is hub-hub), so I don't even have a colorable alternative at the moment. I'd be thrilled to give AA my business, but their current ticketing model just doesn't work with my travel patterns.

Airpass was perfect, sigh...