Originally Posted by kb1992

+1

The ability of upgrading 35K XN ticket is a tremendous benefit. I have booked few XN tickets BOS-EWR-NRT for next May family travel and successfully confirmed to PN.

These tickets are expensive if you pay cash.

I don't care much about tarmac transfer or boarding order either (although once I boarded last and were in a nasty situation that all overhead beans were full in F).