Well, your profile does not show where you are from, so it's a little difficult to determine whether you are close enough to a GP airline gateway city to use GP airlines to Central or South America.

We are using some miles over Easter to visit Costa Rica, which we loved when we were on our LP run. Taking the kids, and hoping to have a great time.

I too have heard that getting KLM seats is difficult (I think because you are competing with all those CO and NW ticket holders for the few FF seats acrosss the Atlantic). Inter-Europe seats on KLM I hear are somewhat easier.

As to who still participates, you can go to GP home, then About GlobalPass, then Participating Programs to get some info., albeit somewhat sketchy. You can also log-on online, and then put in city pairs for awards you are seeking, which lets you know if a GP airline serves the route you wish to take. Kind of a backward way of figuring things out, though.

Then there's always dumping to HiltonHHonors. But, of course, HHonors is being devalued.

Or you can wait for new participants in GP.

Djlawman