Well thank you very much -- I qualified for Chairman's Preferred the hard way -- 100 segments. I will end the year with 130 segments, mostly (90%+) on 60-300 mile flights.

Of course till this year I would not have even made it since they changed the program to include segments. I know that change probably opened the floodgates for CP since there are plenty of people who take the shuttle each week who would know be barely Chairman's, who before were only barely Preferred Plus.

That said, I've had nearly 100% success rate on upgrading myself and my wife when she travels with me (she just turned Preferred herself) and all my flights are going in and out of PIT. Only one flight HPN-PIT did I not get the upgrade; but I got the whole row six in coach to myself