Originally Posted by
spin88
Well you list yourself as at AKC (did you actually mean CAK) but I am assuming are driving to CLE...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.
I'm not saying you can fly in FC every flight, but via a prudent use of free and paid upgrades, you might be able to maximize your rides up front, and, more important, control better when that event happens (e.g. longer or more arduous flights), rather than depending purely on the vagaries of Uncle Jeffy. This is an art, not a science.
RNE, adding that AKC is the nearest airport to my palatial mansion here in the tony West End of the megalopolis known as Akron, Ohio. Therefore, yes, CAK and CLE are not far away and, by the way, I can fly UA from either of those airports; I am not a captive of CLE.