Originally Posted by
scubadu
I'm quite fascinated by this perception with 1Ks, that if they can't achieve 1K, no lessor status matters, it's just "goodbye cruel airline..."
In my experience, 1K is the only status level which provides a significant number of guaranteed or nearly-guaranteed upgrades. The financial benefit of this, at least in my years of 1K, is easily in the thousands of dollars per year. Lower status levels simply don't offer that, and are in my mind comparably worthless (not completely without value, but vastly less so than 1K).