Originally Posted by
moondog
The long term goal is presumably to tie all awards to the cost of revenue tickets. I honestly don't have a problem with that (or revenue based accrual) anymore because they've given us more than a decade to get used to it.
You are right. EOS (End of SkyMiles) is something DL was specifically hiring some 10 years ago, so EOS has been long known to be coming (where EOS means basically 1 SM ~ 1 cent, price tied to revenue fare). There has been plenty of time to switch one's mileage earning to other programs, as many have done. (For me, the last SkyMile earned was a few years ago. But the SM # is still useful given the "lifetime" ST E+, to use for non-mileage-accruing bookings at least.)