Originally Posted by
flensr
Yea. I've been debating how long I'll delay upgrade, both to shorten the time on reserve and to give me a little insurance against involuntary displacement. Of course, if I bid 100% LAX CA followed immediately by 100% LAX FO, all they'd do is downgrade me. I'll probably end up doing that instead of bypassing.
Have you considered adding OAK, LAS and maybe PHX CA before downgrading? Lots of flights between LAX area airports and those 3... I could understand accepting downgrade before commuting across the country, but these 3 shouldn't be much worse than driving from say Inland Empire.