Originally Posted by
1967cougar
Funny you should ask, I'm sitting at IAD RCC
If you switch, you can kiss away what you say is most important, which would be "frequent" upgrades. I wouldnt change programs if you want any shot at upgrades. Cheap lounge access would = joining AEGEAN since they have the lowest gold requirements of any *A and you can use USA based RCC's when flying domestic economy. Many people will split their plans. Put enough into something like AEGEAN for domestic coach lounge access and then pile the rest of the miles to you MP program. Dont know if there's much to improve on if you want upgrade ability. As they say, YMMV.
Thanks for the quick reply!
I don't fly US domestic routs often so RCC access isn't really make me excited. Also, as a UA 1P, I only get upgrades while flying domestically so I'm not really taking advantage of that either. But, I do would like to have an upgrades when flying internationally. Wondering if there are any programs that gives you frequent upgrades on TATL or TPAC for someone who fly 25k-50k miles a year. Also, that program has to have a no star net blocking (even though I haven't really had bad experiences with star blocking for my last two redemptions) when it comes to award flights in premium cabins? I don't even know there's such program tho.