welookgood,
I, too, realized once I accepted the coach seats, my leverage was weakened...but, I accepted it only after, and upon, the supervisor's explicit offer (and I didn't ask him, he literally offered) to "get in touch this coming week" to make some form of compensation offer. yes, I have his name and my spouse and the lower-level CSR witnessed his promise to contact me (FW that's worth). he made a point of saying he had my name and contact info from my GOLD status w/ CO so my sense was he was sincere and will follow through.

7500-10000 x 2 makes sense to me also.

Thanks to both of you guys for the insight.