Last year I went out of my way to stick on UA metal, closed with ~$60k on 50 segments of UA metal out of a non-hub, and still didn’t make GS. This year hit $24k last month, of which 2/3 was on UA metal and the rest on LH 016 tickets so good enough for 1K already. Plan to fly *A where convenient, will not go out of my way for UA metal anymore, and spend the rest on AA where I’m also ExecPlat. That’s probably $40k I would have spent on UA metal this year going to LH and AA/BA. Assuming others in the same boat are equally rational, I have to guess those marginal $40k losses add up. But what do I know, UA has all their vaunted big data and will make up those $40ks somewhere