Originally Posted by Zip

After six years as Platinum, I’m (almost) giving up with CO. Since upgrades are no longer given for “loyalty,” and most of my domestic flights are non-business so I try to fly as low cost as possible, my upgrade % as Platinum has fallen to about 65% on upgradeable flights. Combined with all my CO segments, I’m now in FC less than 1/3 of flights. My complaint – my international flights are mostly high-cost, and I’m in coach on those. And now that doesn’t help much in qualifying for domestic upgrades.

On United, except for a few flights from CLE (my home base) to places such as ORD and Dulles (CO has RJ to these locations also), I find E+ quite comfortable; I would rather travel most of the time in E+ than 2/3 time in CO coach. Also, the upgrades on UA are actually a bonus to me!

I’ll still be flying on CO, because of all the non-stops, and will make Silver (and possibly Gold). However, the bulk of my travel, including most of those high-cost international flights, will now be on UA.