Year-End Report: My Upgrades, Not That You'd Necessarily Care
I have completed all the traveling I'm going to do in 2005. I am Silver Elite. Here are my flights in chronological order, and the upgrades (UGs) I got:
CLE-MCO-CLE: Not eligible for upgrade because of non-elite on same reservation
CLE-IAH-SFO-IAH-CLE: 3 UGs, 1 not
CLE-MCO-CLE: 2 UGs, 0 not
CLE-ATL-BCN-JFK-CVG-CLE: Not eligible because flights were on Delta, plus non-elite on reservation
CLE-IAH-LIM-EWR-CLE: Not eligible because of international travel, plus non-elite on reservation
CLE-EWR-AUS-CLE: 0 UGs, 2 not (not counting AUS-CLE because it was via ERJ)
CLE-SJU-EWR-CLE: 2 UGs, 0 not (not counting paid UG on SJU-EWR segment)
CLE-PHX-CLE: 1 UG, 1 not
Not counting ineligible segments, I had 8 that were upgraded and 4 that were not. That works out to a 67% upgrade rate. It's a small sample size, I admit, but I'm pleased with it. And given that I'm only a Silver and get upgraded two-thirds of the time, I think that speaks well of CO's EUG program. ^ What do you think?