Originally Posted by
alpharetttab
Huge negative for high-value platinum members that travel internationally, and for Delta regarding their fares. My company will pay m-fares for upgrades but will not pay for business class. I regularly and successfully upgraded TATL flights with my SWUs for the past few years and this option goes away for me now.
Why any company would pay for YBM fares is beyond me. DL was basically scamming the system by creating an incentive for employees to book over-priced fares in order to use their SWUs. This wasted company money and created a system where there were no international UG benefits for people working for companies with rationale travel policies or those who were weren't profligate or irresponsible with their employer's money.
Sorry you have to sit in the back of the bus now, but this is a much better system.