Originally Posted by
Syzygies
Yep, I shopped UA before choosing CO for my NYC-SFO commute. JFK-SFO is 2,586 miles, so they want 3,000 miles worth of certs. If I asked them to round up my EQMs and miles to 3,000 for each flight, their bean-counters would think I was trying to steal from them.
So I drew the only logical conclusion: They were trying to steal from me.
So what do you do now? Fly CO SFO-EWR and never get the upgrade?
But there is a grace, it's just not 86 miles, it's more like 50. Which makes something like SFO-PHL a better value at 2,521 (or 5 x 500-milers).
Seriously, though, if all you fly is SFO-JFK, nothing else, you'd still get > 50% upgrades if you blew your CR1s and SWUs on it, along with your 500's. Hard to believe any CO Plat does this well on SFO-EWR. You'd have to manage the certs, though.