Most of the helicopter services ran to/from the East 60th Street Heliport (dail services). Anyone traveling in J or P on -- even if traveling on upgrades! -- could use it. If I recall, the WorldPass application fee included the first 10k miles free, enough for an upgrade. It was pretty easy to buy BOS-JFK roundtrips for $40, add on the $35 WorldPass fee -- and get to use the helicopter.

Flights to/from Battery Park were started after the E 60th services and op'd only on weekdays.

The best deal with WPass -- up until '86 if I recall -- was that awards were not capacity controlled. PA got into big trouble because miles had to be redeemed within 3 years (I think) -- As a result, right before a 30 June deadline, they had an inordinate number of pax using freebies in first internationally, filling up planes and totally killing yields. ouch.