Depends on what you expect as a Plat benefit. Hubby & I were coming back from TPA this Sun on the 6:35am flight. At 5am at the airport we were told our flight was cancelled. We were able to wait in the MUCH shorter Elite line, and were given Standby status on the next flight out at 8am--- but we were told we were nos 15 & 16 on an already full flight. CO explained others who had been on previously cancelled flights from the day before were ahead of us for Standby. So rather than take a chance of having to spend that day (and the next and the next) -- seats were only available on Wed flights, we opted to get a refund, and flew JetBlue, which had a couple of seats on their 6am flight to JFK.