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Old Jul 31, 2015, 3:45 pm
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MikeBOS
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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I would say don't bother. The benefits of Elevate Silver are minimal; Gold is much more valuable. You get to board first, priority security, and some chance of an upgrade into a seat that other airlines (e.g. American, United) would give you automatically with comparable status. The upgrades are a crap shoot because you can easily get "upgraded" into a middle seat.

With Gold you can buy upgrades to First ahead of everyone else, which for me at least would be a valuable benefit. Unfortunately I don't fly enough on VX's routes to get to Gold, and the flying I do on their routes is split between VX and JetBlue.
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