Spoiled Silver
 

Terribly disappointed - I have not been upgraded for my MCO-DTW leg tomorrow afternoon. First time I will have to fly coach in 23 segments. GRRRR.

Oh well, only 5k away from Gold, hopefully this won't happen again ;)

If you are on 426 or 422....don't worry too much about it. I see good things for you in the battlefield. ;)

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Wow, many Plats would love to have your upgrade record for this year.....

Yeah, I haven't had that good of an upgrade record this year as a GE.

Since making SE I've done 8 NW segments (LGA-MSP-SEA-KOA-SEA-MSP- EWR-MSP-HNL) and 3 partner segments on HA (HNL-ITO-HNL-ITO). Got EUA'ed on LGA-MSP-SEA, was in Y SEA-KOA, and upgraded myself KOA-SEA-MSP-EWR-MSP-HNL.

Alas, the rest of the year looks like ITO-HNL-NRT-PEK-AMS-EDI-AMS-NBO-EBB-NBO-AMS-EDI-AMS-PEK(-SYX- PEK?)-NRT-HNL-ITO (with possible substitution of ICN for NRT) and everything the other side of PEK will be KE, KL or KQ, so I'm going to be doing a lot of BIS in Y. :(

Maybe I should do one more domestic RT just for kicks, and upgrade it.

Neither have I... I had better luck as a Silver! However, my destinations have changed recently and have added far more DTW-BOS evening trips and MANY more CRJ flights.

Nope...431...still seeing things?

Also, my return flight the next evening via MEM-MCO is not upgraded, whereas the BWI-MEM is already.

Interestingly enough I will scrape by before potential CHAOS as my plane lands in MCO around 11:59 PM on 8/24. Talk about the skin of one's teeth!

Is it just plats out of DTW and MSP that have it so hard? My destinations have been:

BOS, IND, GRR, EWR, SFO, MSP, MKE, DTW, OMA....

Couple of those have been multiple trips...

Being a NWA WP member seems not so bad out of MCO. EXCEPT, there's fewer non-stops - but I am happy to take multiple legs if I am able to relax with a glass of wine, hit the worldclub and get some work done, etc. So connections don't bother me too much.

Pfft, I land at 8:24pm CDT on 8/25, about a half hour before potential CHAOS :cool: And that is my outbound ... The return on 8/28 should be fun.

As a gold - I don't have high success on upgrading most of my flights, other than at the gate.

Hats off to you!

UGs as a Silver and Gold can vary highly based on route, day, and time of day. As a Silver, I never missed in single UG into or out of ABQ (my home airport) in 2.5 years. I moved to RNO shortly after making Gold, and had about 50% success in and out of my home airport before NW left the market. As Silver, my UG% was always above 90, but I worked hard at it--Saturday flights, non-favored-by-business-traveler-time-of-day flights, careful comparison of F avail in nearby airports at time of purchase (e.g., low F avail for LGA-MSP, but good avail for a JFK-MSP flight with near-identical departure time would mean I flew out of JFK).

So far I've had 100% success as a Silver, then Gold, then Plat this year.

The few times that it was an elite heavy flight (CMH-DTW thursday night) I was on a Y/B so upgraded automatically/very quickly

I'm only about 50% as a Plat on flights to and from SEA this year. Yesterday I was on SEA-MSP on an expensive H fare and didn't make it.

I was close to 100%, but failed last Friday out of SFO. I think my FC was given to a priest with a collar!

Was the collar studded? (Have to ask, in SFO. ;))