Originally Posted by
MikeBOS
The status programs on most of the legacy airlines give you a better shot at upgrades than VX does, if you're not at the lowest level.
Wait, what? I'm UA Gold – which isn't great but certainly isn't the lowest level – and I get upgraded about 1% of miles flown. My friend who's Platinum doesn't do any better (except when he uses his two CPU certificates...and even then he often gets denied). How could it be worse than that?