I can't see subsidizing the airlines with my time and money because of what happened. There are several reasons:

1. The trickle of people who will act this way with me are not going to make a dent, remember MOST people have never done a mileage run, that is something rather unique to the addicted people on this board.

2. The airline industry was lossing significant amounts of money before last week and the reason for that is that the industry had contracted when the airlines weren't looking. Last week only made a bad situation worse.

3. The industry needs to adjust to the current conditions, or it will not get healthy again. Flying empty planes with two or three FLyertalkers on board can't keep them financially strong forever. And flyertalkers do not have enough money to keep the airlines going forever.

4. I don't want to see any airline employee lose a job because most of them have very little control over the health of their companies but if it were going to happen to me I wouldn't want to postpone the inevitiable. It is a bit like the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, ther was a huge cutback in logging in the early 90's and logging towns argued that if they couldn't continue cutting the towns would go under and a "way of life" would be lost. But if something isn't sustainable you can't prop it up forever. Eventually something has to change. The airlines were going to have to make changes two weeks ago, today the changes are more substantial but just as necessary.