With all the chaos in the world my family and I are packing up heading for Maui from the west coast. Family is there somewhat permanenantly but I'm still working on the mainland. So, as a guy that previoulsy only traveled 2-3X a year (mainly for pleausure) I found myself on many flights back and forth between work and family.
I made MVP sometime over the summer and just hit Gold on my last flight a couple days ago. I am honestly blown away at how generous the AS frequent flyer program is. I guess I now understand what all talk (that I had previously never paid much attention to) was about.
I didn't do too well with FC upgrades but I think the PDX>OGG route has a lot of high-level travelers. I think I was 1/7 for that (but was 2/2 on a PDX > LAS trip). I'm definitely hoping for better luck as a Gold in 2021. The ability to grab seats is amazing for me. At 6'4" even if it's just an exit row I'm ecstatic.