Originally Posted by
DLATL777
If you care upgrades, wrong program. DL has no interest in giving away upgrades and looks for every opportunity to sell the seats.
Edit-I havent found status useful in a decade when I was able to start paying for F/J. Tolerable is about the only word I can come up with to describe US airlines. 15 years ago DL upgrades were a thing worth chasing, not so much anymore.
This is absolutely correct. In the days when DL was only selling a fraction of their F seats and SDC was robust and allowed you to switch to any routing, I ran upgrade rates pretty close to 100%. No chance of doing that now unless you're flying to/from a small airport without much of an elite population.