Originally Posted by
GrayAnderson
(1) Platinum is $10 per. Reserve is $20 per.
(2) I did specifically indicate that the SkyClub passes were weighed, but I declined to assign a cash value to them at the moment since there's a good chance of some breakage and I can't legitimately mark them off as a "full" SC membership (let alone the $50/ea that the extra passes cost, which would notionally rate the lot at close to $1500).
(3) I was notionally zeroing out the companion certs - I've had a lot of trouble using them (I'm usually a solo traveler) and the Platinum ones are utterly useless for me, anyway (MC-only).
Basically, I was trying to avoid dealing with intangibles as much as possible, and just focusing on "discounting" tangible items.
Yeah: $20. Thanks! I was still pre-caffeinated. And I get it, but should have been more clear that you mentioned SC access but didn't assign a value. While that value may be difficult to quantify precisely, it is at least non-zero.
As for the companion certs: the vast majority of my travel is also solo. I started using the certs to take a yearly, long-weekend trip with my daughters (they trade off each year) to a location of their choice. So, that's a good value for me. YMMV, of course. (I've never had any real problems using them, except during the pandemic, when everyone and his brother had multiple certs, all trying to use them, with limited inventory.)