Knowitall: MJW IS "one of the suits" though she may not have been pushing that change, she certainly has known about it (and surely feared looking at flyertalk opinions about it), but I am sure we will in time get more of an answer from her and hopefully this will not be a permanent change (hint, dump it - excuse-demand has returned to "normal").

Having said that, I am sure MJW wasn't gone long enough or relaxing enough to be ready to deal with all these threads super quickly, and I am sure that the decision for this change is causing some headaches now, as it should (IMHO).

I might add that CO does have fare restrictions on its Int'l upgrades, similar to what NW has just imposed... of course one would have hoped they would have aligned the programs with NW's old approach not CO's.

And finally, welcome back MJW, I hope nothing serious caused your absence.

TG