Another couple great responses, thanks! I can't even fathom flying 200 or 300k miles in a year, that's amazing. Also interesting to hear how you as a DL have to play the game and work hard to ensure things go your way. It shouldn't be that hard for you guys (troops on the ground putting in the REAL miles) to get the royal treatment IMO. But I guess it's guys like me that are the problem since I have the possibility (sadly not the ability) to simply earn the same status through CC spend & other means etc. LOL. Sorry about that!

I have been experimenting with the search tool & it's really interesting to see how things change when specifying a fare class. One thing I noticed... I was searching for "Y" or above fares PWM>SYD for random dates in November & the class "W" kept coming up above the M's. I don't see W listed on the fare class chart. What's that all about?