I agree. I think they will either drop the EFD-IAH flights or make them non-EQM (at least at 500 miles a pop).

They won't drop the flights as they were put in place specificly to compete with Southwest's flights out of Hobby (the south airport in Houston.) They might remove the "Y" option.

I actually asked about this whent the new EQM deal hit thinking that a qualifying fare shoud rate EQM on the hop while a discounted fare wouldn't. No real answer from CS, so I droped it.

FWIW

DLM

CO flies EFD-IAH (literally, a 40 mile trip or something?).

Southwest has a HUB in Hobby.

The real competition they had was CO's EWR-HOU flights.

Now Southwest is posting a few flights to IAH (I think from BNA?).

For the Y fare EFD-IAH flight, does EQM post like Elite bonuses? That is, the bonus is calculated off of the acutal miles rather than the minimum miles?

I think that's how it's calculated, so I don't think CO is going to sweat the extra 20 miles.

Thank goodness I don't have to put up with this nonsense.

Life is grand over at AA, with award availability at standard levels in F offered consistently to HNL and OGG.

Not to mention Lifetime Elite Status, etc.

I just don't get why anyone is putting up with the latest silliness from DL and CO.

Just know that Gordo laughs all the way to the Bank daily.