I profess to be in a similar position and with my working life now receding behind me the score has become irrelevant. The question is not can I make LTG -no (the wife would have something very forceful to say if ever I tried!), but what are the cost benefits of investing in another 1,500 TPs to ensure an additional 12 months of being a GCH. Have managed this year to squeeze in a couple of LHs including the late and truly lamented CAI/HNL, and also extended my HHonors Diamond for a year so am ok until 2019 but after that, horrors!! I might have to stand in line. And sit in the main terminal seating areas. I might become....one of them!! Oh dear....