Originally Posted by
hlee628
Just to chime in here, as a longtime Diamond member, BR does treat it's top tiers pretty well. If you are concerned about the phone wait times, there is a special phone line for Diamond members that is almost always immediately answered. However, if you are flying business class on revenue J tickets all the time, I think there's not a whole lot of incremental value to be had there.
I work for an org that has an economy only travel policy, so where the Diamond status comes in handy for me is priority waitlisting of upgrading, which would be irrelevant in your case if you're already in the forward cabin.
DeltaOneFlyer brings up a good point also. Perhaps neither BR nor UA should be your program of choice. Choosing where to credit your miles for max redemption value doesn't have to go hand in hand with having status in a particular program.
thank you, very valuable suggestions by all of you. Yes, I am at the age it's hard for me trying to figure things out like I used to, and like you said since I'm flying C all the time status doesn't really give me much anymore. But I do want to use top lounges. Most airlines C lounge is becoming more and more brutal stuff with people that gets access by cheap status or credit card offering, which I don't blame the people, but because of this the airlines are dumbing down their C lounge offering. And since most routes don't have F cabin anymore that I can no longer buy my way into F lounges with a F ticket and can't get into F lounges without status.