I have an US transcon trip coming up (~5hrs) and have been upgraded (CO-EUA).

I'm traveling with 2 friends, not best friends or anything, just friends. We're meeting up with some others at the destination.

We've already worked out the luggage thing so I didn't have to choose someone there.

But as plat, I have the option to upgrade a companion. My luck on companion upgrades has been slim (like 1 of 8) so I doubt it'll go through anyway.

I won't be returning with them due to a different itinerary so I can't do one there and one back. And they know about the companion upgrade thing since I did it for a mutual friend once and it worked.

I asked another FT friend about it and he said just to not bother with it. But it seems like it would be a nice thing to do if it worked.

So how would you choose?