I'd like to offer up a hypothesis that fresh start accounting may actually help you determine the actual value of a mile...sometime in the future at least. Even inside United however, there are a variety of opinions on the value of a mile...but emerging from bankruptcy is effecting those opinions right now. Read more here (http://unitedchannel10.blogspot.com) on a new blog I've created geared toward my, and your, better understanding of United corporate. This is not sanctioned by the company and all views are entirely my own. I hope that this might flower to become something more open, but for now, I'm going to have to remain an anonymous employee of UAUA.