Update: See comments 1 and 2 below for a possible explanation of what happened here.

About six months ago, I posted about the use of DL SWUs on AF – allowing someone to buy a premium economy (Premium Voyageur) ticket on AF metal and upgrade into business.  This was notable because the premium economy prices were much better than DL’s Y/B/M fares, and there was generally “OK” availability in the upgrade bucket.  I was successful in getting my ...

I'm chasing Platinum at SPG this year, and I'm short a few nights.  One of these years, I'm either going to get to Gold and be nowhere near Platinum, or I'm going to go over Platinum.  Until then, I'm tied to Planet Hollywood, the only SPG hotel on The Strip, for my Vegas Vacation - styled adventures.  My trips to Las Vegas has traditionally be for one of three reasons:

For my band to play live, which makes any hotel on the strip too expensive, For a bunch of ...