Originally Posted by
superangrypenguin
Close, but not quite. Our company has a very generous vacation allowance and I am measured based on time in front of customer. So i'll requalify that as "weekly, when not on vacation or have exceeded my #". As far as requesting upgrades, I'll be the first to say that I don't know how many eups a SE gets (can't be bothered to look it up this morning), but how do you request an upgrade "on every flight"? Do you have that many eUp credits?
No the trick is FP's book into M. So a short haul domestic flight is 2 credits and a long haul is 4 credits. Even when I was E75K i eup'd almost every flight, that's when I learned I better just eup all of them, because I still had a bunch of credits expire.
Right now, after flying most of the year, I still have 50 Eups and i've got 25 more coming when I cross 100k (only at 95k/107AQS after today). I also signed up to get 12 credits every time I buy a pass...
Also worth noting is that I generally save quite a bit of money with my travel patterns using the passes. I like to book my flights right at the T-7 window, and that's when I'm organized. I booked my AC flight for today this morning.
And visiting some of the "hotspots" that I do, the cost of a ticket on a FP credit is often half of what it would be to buy the single flight.