Originally Posted by
pauleeepaul
Assuming this guy was talking about a roundtrip he apparently values the possibility of upgrading at less than $5/hour.
The piker belongs in the back of the bus.
Neglecting, of course, the fourteen 500-mile upgrades the "piker" would need to burn to upgrade the whole roundtrip. That plus the uncertainty of being upgraded as a PLT might reasonably steer one away from the more expensive ticket.