Beckles, that was my Plan A also. However, upgrades for Golds and Silvers have essentially been eliminated. The NAU 10,000 upgrade counter is linked to
Preferred miles. I missed this initially. So after our CP runs out, so will the upgrade opportunities.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
For me, upgrades are the single most important aspect of the program, which is in affect unchanged. I should earn CP this year, which I'll have through 2/29/2004 ... then hopefully if US follows previous patterns they'll only drop me one level per year, which means I'd be Gold through 2/28/2005 and Silver through 2/28/2006. Usually Silver would be problematic, but if these new changes do stay in affect through then, the ranks of elites will be significantly thinned by then anyway, so that will not be a problem for upgrading anyway and even Silvers should be able to upgrade a significant amount of the time....</font>