One year with Seats.aero
I joined Seats.aero a year ago and then quickly realized those instantly-confirmable PlusPoints upgrades are also eligible for Mileage Upgrade Awards. With that knowledge, the need to chase 1k status for PlusPoints and upgrade pecking order basically vanished. That is to say, we've mostly been finding confirmable upgrade seats, paying for an Economy ticket, and then using the Mileage Upgrade Award to instantly upgrade to Polaris (usually 30,000 miles + $500). Giving a quick glance over these 12 months of flying here's a few things that occur to me: Flexibility is key . Given Kel has an American job with its max-4-weeks vacation and 3 mandatory office badge-ins per week, we've had to buy him tickets on several occasions instead of flexing his date to one with a confirmable upgrade seat. Tim and I have a lot more flexibility so we've been able to take better advantage of those Sometimes all the flexibility in the world won't help and you're left with two options