Originally Posted by
serpens
I downgraded a Surpass card to the no-fee card over a year ago because I expected to get an upgrade offer either back to Surpass or to Aspire. Not a hint of an upgrade offer ever appeared. Meanwhile, I'm Diamond on stays, so I'm (im)patiently hoping for an offer to appear. As Dr Jabadski noted above, an application for Aspire (or Surpass) would affect Chase 5/24, so I'd really rather get an upgrade offer. Also, I understand that an upgrade does not count against the lifetime language in the Amex terms. If anyone knows how to tickle Amex into an upgrade offer (with points; I have seen offers to upgrade without a point incentive), I would appreciate hearing about it.
Yea I am kinda in the same boat. I have two amex no AF hilton cards. One was a downgraded surpass card and the other was a downgraded aspire card. I downgraded them a few years ago due to pandemic and have been waiting for an upgrade offer. I have upcoming travel planned so would probably leap at the chase to upgrade back to aspire especially given I just dropped down to gold status, but they aren't offering any points to do so. Still I might do the math and see if the AF is worth it.