Originally Posted by
airmotive
For the win.
I've staggered from the back row of a 777 from Hong Kong, hungry, smelly and having not slept for 36 hours. I was a total wreck for several days afterwards.
That was you!!!
When I was traveling weekly, status was helpful during irrops (was mostly on CRJs, so no upgrades but a free snacks). Now that I'm mostly leisure, I just make sure I'm in a premium cabin for vacation, and don't really need status.
BUT, when I have travel for work...I miss my old status. SUre it's only 20 more minutes in security. I have lounge through my AmEx. But when they did OpUPs on my international flight (when I had flown 22k on their airline in the past 5 days, and would willingly have paid for the upgrade!), I did want to cry.
Would I ever, ever, do a MR to Hong Kong to get status? Never. Would I spend several hundred dollars to get status if I were close? Probably. Did I stupidly choose AF for my last flight to get Delta status?
Step One: My Name is...and I'm a Mile-a-Holic