Good to read your posts again, Rudi. You were one of the most active members when I first stumbled upon this forum back in 1997.

Lifetime members outside North America seem to have been excluded from any mailings for some time now. My own address could not be entered by their staff or by myself, as only Canada and the US were included as address options. Have only ever used the international zone flight once due to the condition that it must originate from America. If only that condition was changed, then these W or V class flights would be very good value, by far the cheapest that are upgradeable with an SWU.

Had faxed, and telephoned, last year angry that life members had to pay again before they had access to the double miles and travel credits, but that will shortly be history. Would be happy if we had an assurance that the international zone fares for lifers would be continued beyond March 2008.

If anyone has info on whether that is the case, I would be very interested. If there was any chance that the international zone fares could start from outside north america, wouldn't that be wonderful.

Koala