I both do and don't agree. I sprung for the extra points (not sure it was worth it in retrospect, considering other options) for the CO BF on my RTW reward because I wanted to fly non-stop from NYC to NRT. CO is the only SkyTeam partner that flies that. Really what I wanted was to get to GUM in only one stop, and in the best seats I could, and CO let me do that the easiest.

Of course, the flip side is that I basically gave away a bunch of points for that one flight. Would it have been worth it to fly NW via DTW instead? I just don't know.

S.