My point is any change that an Airline needs to take to keep solvent is met with hostility. Cutting Pension or wages or Employees the Union is all over your ... blocking the process. Reduce FF benefits or require more loyalty to earn perks and the FF's swear you off and move on to another airline. Except that as a FF I cant move to another carrier. It seems like AA is the FF program du jour. Does AA have that many less warts ?

Point is that no change would have been exceptable in their FF program. Can somehere really tell me that if your airline of choice reduced miles earned or increased award prices that you would tolerate it ? I dont think so. So how do they survive, no FF is willing to give an inch without *****ing about it.

Everyone has a gripe, no one has a solution to the current and impending doom of many airlines. I for one am tired of using tax dollars to bail them out, and I have miles on 4 different airlines, so I am bound to lose something if they fold like a tent.