Thanks for the almost immediate input. Believe me, I have the utmost sympathy for those of you who need to travel way more than I do. What precipitated my original post, though, was a conversation with a seatmate who asked for a credit card application, assuming, as I would think many would, that "priority" would mean "first." I guess that "priority," "preferred" and "elite" all have unique definitions when it comes to USAirways.