Originally Posted by odysseusinrtp
And if you go into the Delta forum and look in the thread talking about Upgrade percentage you do have to wonder if it really is worth it at that price.
As a GM with Delta my upgrade % through ATL was about 12%. I am going to be about 10,000 short of PM also and I am wondering if it is worth the money. Is 2 or 3 extra upgrades/year worth the money?
Maybe, I'm not so sure...
I flew my first ever mileage run on December 7 (TPA-ATL-SFO-ATL-TPA) and added an extra segment yesterday TPA-LGA-ATL. I'll hit 75,102 MQMs to earn PM status on my last paid flight of the year tomorrow. Of 5 flights eligible for upgrades, I cleared on exactly zero segments. The interesting thing is that on at least 4 of my 5 flights, I was in the top 3 for the gate upgrade lottery. If I had been Platinum already, I'm sure I would have cleared on at least 3 of the flights (the SFO-ATL flight was really full up front - I think one PM cleared at the gate).
So I think that a mileage run is worth it in this case (mine only cost me an extra $229 and a client an extra $60). Especially now that PM on Delta is 75,000 miles, there will be a lot more PMs out there (like me - I would have made 75,000 miles for PM last year, but ended up being Gold).