...for just one solid month...hell 2 weeks at home!!!!

okay maybe I wouldn't give up status in all...but the point remains the same...the status is nice, but to echo psychephylax...the sacrifice is "a life". I've joked about it for years, (getting lost on the way home, the dog growling at me, my son's definition of "dad" being that cool guy who visits every other weekend, etc.) But some of this crap is actually starting to happen. At 150 nights a year you have status (or if you plan well you could) yet your home over 200 nights a year!!!