I went to high school in Houston and college in Boston (89-93) and became very familiar with the last days of CO right before its final BK. (Interestingly enough Lorenzo's kids went to my school.)

CO then was a college student's dream, the really average service kept business travelers away and I could always get a full row in coach to stretch out and sleep. I seemed to always have the 2 rows past the galley in the rear all to myself on MD-80s. (Yes you arrived deaf from the engines being right there). I seemed to remember it was always $303 RT if you planned ahead.

Tired planes and you never knew what they would look like, having had so many prior owners (Frontier, PE, NY, EA).

There were the Amex college vouchers that required you to book no earlier than 2 weeks out. (IIRC they took over from NW who was Amex's partner. NW at the time was flying high and had just tied up with KLM) Regular weekends were great, but using them for vacations was a nightmare.

My original Onepass Card has both logos, EA and CO.

Anyone else take one of EA's redeyes? You could only take carryon luggage since the hold was full of mail. We took it as a family from IAH-NYC and got in at ~2AM. That was a wild trip for a Jr. High kid.

Also IIRC, add to the "transfer" of assets to CO from EA SystemOne the GDS that is now Amadeus, EA had to pay CO to book tickets.

I'll dig around and see what I still have from that time period and scan it in.

BSL