Goalie beat me by 3 minutes posting on this one!
It was really simple -- and the timing couldn't have been more perfect, because I flew a random WN flight to Vegas last week and this week was the AA trip I posted about.
However, though, let's go here for a second -- does this continue to diminish the EQM value for UA? I don't think I've ever heard of a NW/AA/CO/etc. doing this???