Well you list yourself as at AKC (did you actually mean CAK) but I am assuming are driving to CLE.

If so, then you have little choice, Jeff has you by the *****. You can pay, or ride in the back.

Now me? Well I fly perhaps 80 trips a year, and if I paid an extra $200 each way to upgrade it would cost me an extra $32,000. Given that choice were I not GS (and next year I will not be. ) I would pick another airline that will upgrade me. Look me up in the dictionary and you will not see my picture under "patsy" or "Stockholm syndrome"