I will be flying tomorrow afternoon on CO1712 SJU-IAH (N Class Ticket), and I will be turning Silver Elite somewhere over the gulf of mexico.

Business/First has 5 empty seats so far. I called CO tonight about possibly getting the status early so that I can be considered for an upgrade, the answer was an immediate "NO", in fact the CSR told me that he had gotten a bulletin the last week, saying not to comp elite status early.

My cousin who I booked for on this flight, changed to an earlier flight, and was offered an F ticket for $125 more because coach was close to being sold out(Maybe she told the CSR about her breast implants). I called CO tonight and asked about a possible upgrade, I was quoted $314 + $100 transfer fee. Coach is pretty much sold out on my flight -3 seats, and they could surely sell mine at the last minute if they were to upgrade me.

Heres the issue I have. My cousin has maybe 1000 eqm with CO(maybe 1000 miles altogether..), I have 23k EQM now, she gets offered a cheap upgrade, and I don't. I have purposely given CO my business (within my limited college budget) so that I can hit silver this year. This just seems like bad business to me.

Any advice from you pro's on what I might be able to do, does this seem right??


-Andrew