Haven't been on in a while, but just an update- I'm sticking with LH for this year (pretty sure I'll get FT at least) and then I'm going to be trying to find the program that suits me the best.

I just stopped by to note that Intl upgrades do happen. Within my family exclusively, we've had two in the last month.

One of them was my dad (Silver DL) flying LON-NYC with a pretty empty plane. It was Dec 22nd (close to christmas) so I'm assuming that's why he got it. And the other free upgrade was obtained by my bro, he's DL platinum and was flying PRG-NYC, but apparently the plane was very full so that's probably why. I still don't think DL is my best option though. I was thinking about switching to OnePass, but they have those ridiculous co-pays on the lower fares, so that isn't great.