Originally Posted by DashTrash508

If you upgrade at the first available, plan to be in reserve for 2.5-3 years. Once you can hold a line, plan on min days off along with uncommutable and inefficient five and six day trips (that are difficult to drop and replace with premium pay trips) for a few more years. You can plan for long (>24 hours) layovers in garden spots like PIT, AFW, or GPT, along with a lot of offline deadheads (“middle-seat-express”). And significant amount of red eye flying on NCAA and MLS charters. It’s not fun. I can’t fault anyone who bypasses the upgrade.