Yes, RPUs are completely useless on a Sunday night PS redeye from a discount fare as a plat. Let's see:
- Sunday (start of the business travel week)
- Redeye (lie-flat bed even more valuable than daytime)
- Discount fare (a lot of companies buying full fare with discounts on contract and relatively high min fare published for the O&D market)
- Plat sponsor (the lowest possible RPU sponsor status)
Yea, that's not gonna clear except maybe Thanksgiving week.
I've had no trouble using all 4 of mine this year on flights I didn't want to roll the CPU dice on, or where they yield a nice upgrade to lie-flat: YYZ-IAH (CRJ7), IAH-YYZ-IAH (CRJ7), IAD-IAH (B763)