Originally Posted by ethernal

No one is flying a TPAC on an award or upgrade certificate leaving on a Sunday night (short of a gate upgrade which clearly didn't happen here) unless they paid an arm and a leg in miles or someone in revenue management screwed up.

The price of a PS ticket on this route is like 2.5K. I'm ignoring corp discounts here but try finding a flight departing DTW to PVG in D1 for less than 10K. Some are priced upwards of 15K. 2K seems like a ripoff to me - but obviously Delta is going to start cheap. My bet is the guy that took the 2K will kick himself when the next volunteer gets 5K.

I will admit that I'd rather jump on a TPAC in PS than a TATL given that this particular flight "lands" at night so you can go and get some sleep after... but still seems cheap to me.