Originally Posted by
aircanada_loyal
At the outset, I am a Super-Elite with Air Canada (*G), and have had this status for number of years.
Thanks for letting us know, even though it's not really relevant.
What's REALLY unusual in your TR are what I have highlighted above, and allow me to comment. I usually travel in J, and if in Y I get myself upgraded using my e-upgrades. Sometimes I am confirmed right away, and at other times I get upgraded at check-in, gate, and sometimes it never happens because J is full with revenue passengers. Traveling is tiring in itself, and I have realized there are more important things in life, than losing an e-upgrade. Health and happiness are more important. You dust yourself, and move forward.
Are you lost? You do know where you are, right? You just said yourself that you use upgrades from Y -> J yourself. Does it occur to you that the OP wanted this trip to be special and be in J as much as possible? At FT, we learn the tricks of the trade, and how to make the system favorable to us ... that's exactly what the OP did ...
Secondly, I was a bit disgusted with your TR, where you said: "And I had missed the opportunity to board ahead of the unwashed masses!" REALLY? So, people who board later, never wash themselves, and it's only priority passengers who really wash themselves? I have been traveling for decades, and I often meet high-level professionals, students, young and old, beautiful and ugly, etc... who board later and follow rules (simply because they do not have status), and I can guarantee there is no difference in their odour as compared to priority passengers. If you tell me those masses are "unwashed", I think your perception is very wrong. Smell them the next time you travel, and I look forward to your TR.
Oh please, it's a freaking euphemism
. Maybe we should start calling them "the huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Likewise, I encourage you to travel on an alliance where you do not have status, maybe in India or somewhere in Africa, with 400+ other passengers, and have fun. North America is much more civilized when it comes to boarding, as compared to many other countries. We complain on the smallest thing, but you only appreciate what we have until and unless you experience boarding somewhere else in the world, and where you do not have status with that airline. Have fun!
Actually, I've traveled to India (extensively) and parts of Africa, and I can say that it's not that much different that a lot of boarding in the US.
Also, are you saying that India is not civilized? Because I take offense to that.