I think I can buy into these ideas. Though I admit I would likely prefer the maps to auto rotate more frequent than 2 weeks. But, it is certainly a good start.
One other idea, that I picked up from other posts/threads, I would like to see a BASE ENY. That is to say that after a certain number of 'high-end' birds have taken off, you have maxed out the resources of that base and must resort to 2nd line planes, and continue likewise until 3rd line, etc.... Once the max has lifted off, you can't get a 1st line plane up again until one returns (or lands somewhere else) or is shot down.
This could be coupled with putting airplane factories around the map for which the destruction or partial destruction reduces the number of low ENY planes are available at each zone base. I honestly believe (though I have been wrong at least once before) that putting airplane factories around the map would give the bombers (escorts wanted) something worth while to hit and the fighters something worth while to defend. If that does not promote GREAT COMBAT, I am not sure what would.