<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by brooklynflyer:
I do think that they need to thin the elite ranks at CO.</font>
CO could have done that by not comping status just because people had a pulse or a telephone.
But culling from the pool of bona fide elite-mileage flying and fare-paying customers is cutting off the nose to spite the face.