Originally Posted by jackal

Are they running the Superliner as a BC car now? For years, it was just behind the BC car but was part of the Coach section. (I of course generally preferred the Superliner, but back in those days, it didn't have the wifi module installed, so what you gained in comfort, you lost in connectivity--that's changed now and they have onboard wifi.) It does make more sense to offer it as Business.

Superliner aside, unless you're on a s/o train, I find Coach and Business to be virtually indistinguishable, so I don't bother with Business. The 25% bonus comes out to 50 cents' worth of points on a ~$40 ticket, and I don't think a newspaper, snack pack, and glass of wine is worth $18.50--they're appreciated, but if I went to the snack car to buy those items, I almost certainly wouldn't spend $18.50 of my own money to get them, so they're not really worth $18.50 to me.

That said, on a s/o, SRO train, the equation changes considerably.