Originally Posted by Bay Area Steve

eponymous_coward, you make a compelling argument for me to ignore entirely. I think I had arrived at the same conclusion, and was reaching out to FT on the hope that I was missing something. There's definitely value for me in a once/year upgrade and the 50% bonus, but how much I want to pay for that, I don't know. And, would you please clarify why buying those 10k miles would move to $300 the following year?