Originally Posted by EWR ATC Hold

...Basically my pet peeve is this--with 95,000 EQM's already, I will likely provide CO double the business as these Golds (not 100% but on average). Yet for a stupid $123 difference in fare, I have to sit in coach while they get the free upgrade. How does this make any sense? Over $123 (even if we add this up across 20 flights for the year, we're talking $2,500 at most), my 50,000 extra EQMs (let's say that's 25 round trips in H or Y at $1,000) get Continental an extra $25,000 of business....