Thesilb...c'mon...an employee?? I couldn't possibly be this articulate if I were a CO employee You are correct in some aspects of your statement. I've said this many times and I'll say it again. I fly out of a CO hub (EWR) every week to domestic locations...my main destinations are TPA,IAH,LAS,SEA,SFO,SJC,PHX,DTW,DFW,RDU,MEM,ATL and CLE...I have a few others that I don't frequent very often...I fly Sunday nights/Monday morns(business times)with a return of Thursday night...or Friday night (again...business times)...and I usually do 1-2 Caribbean trips...and maybe 2-3 European trips per year. CO works for me. I do approximately 140K miles per annum and my *ss sits in first 99% of the time...some flights are RJ's (No F)I haven't had much problems with EUA and frankly, I could care less WHEN it happens..as long as it happens. I don't stress (like some in this forum) life is too short. I'm extremely flexible on my vacations (no wife/children...just girlfriend) and that helps when booking award seats...in fact I have 2 trips to Europe this summer that I booked in April on award tix. FT is just a miniscule part of OnePass...and I'll give you my honest opinion here....I think some of the folks here stress and worry entirely too much. I'm not saying that the Freddies mean a whole helluva lot...but SOMEONE had to vote for CO if they won "Best Elite Americas" award...there has to be SOME happy folks out there....maybe they're just like me....stress free.....