Starwood Preferred Guest - Corporate Preferred?

I am a USAir Gold Preferred and a Starwood regular preferred. I stayed about 20 nights in 2000, and ZERO nights thus far in 2001. I have 8000 or so starpoints, not very many..

However, I see in my USAir Gold Preferred kit that I can be "instantly upgraded" to "Corporate Preferred" via their USAir SPG enrollment.

First of all, what is "Corporate Preferred" ? Is it REAL? Or is it just "preferred?"

I'm wondering if it is worth it to abandon my old SPG account and sign up for a new one under this promo. I am likely to stay a dozen nights or so over the rest of the year, so I am unlikely to get any significant status that way.

However, travel will likely pickup again for me next year and I would like status if I can get it.. (like all of us..)

Any ideas you have are appreciated.

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Thank you, Upgrade Me! Too bad my search of "corporate preferred" came up empty!

Good thing you had your eyes peeled.

thanks again

well I called them today and gave them the promotion code. She quickly changed my status to "corporate preferred."

I highly doubt I'll notice any difference in treatment or upgrades, would you all concur?

Unless the program has changed recently here is what you can expect:

As far as upgrades you have the same status as Gold. That generally means you get a room on a high floor or maybe sometimes a corner room. Instead of a 50% point bonus you get threshold bonuses of 1000 points after the 5th and 10th stay.

I've gotten a 2000 point threshold bonus after 5th stay.

I just made Gold, so I'll pay careful attention to my treatment now versus CP.