Originally posted by: David Miller
Raising the Priority card by $80 - from $149 to $229 while taking away the $75 credit AND the 4 upgrades was the last straw for me. I loved the 4 upgrades - I used my last 2 that I had before downgrading my card and the upgrade $ charge for both upgrades was $130 each (if you did not have the upgrade option) - a savings of $260 for me. Seating choice never meant much to me. Boarding and sitting up front, in the middle or in the rear of the aircraft - they are all the same for me. All I care about is reaching Vegas and/or returning home. I prefer the window seat, then the asile and lastly the middle seat. As long as there was no behemoth sitting next to me, I am/was OK. I also only usually check 1 bag, but on occasion I have checked 2 and liked knowing that I would not be charged for either one. Greedwest has taken the joy out of flying with them with their gouging.
Good to know there will be one fewer person trying to upgrade to extra legroom seats before the flight.
We will be on ten flights this year, and there are two of us, which would be twenty upgrades. The four upgrades on the last program are much less valuable to me than the ability to upgrade on all flights. We always get the exact seats we want and have had extra legroom in the first four flights we took.
For my next flight to Vegas, the upcharge to book extra legroom seats is $155 each; you get other benefits as well, so let's call it a $75 benefit. On our trip to the Dominican Republic, with one stop, we upgraded each leg of the trip. There's $300 right there, and I have six more flights booked this year for a total value for me of $750.
The new program works for me, I value the extra leg room, and I like being up front to disembark quicker. We breezed through customs in Orlando; we were the third and fourth people to arrive at customs, with the rest of the plane behind us.
