This isn’t a dunk on any of my employers past or present, but seriously, who are these business people whose employers buy them business class tickets for short haul domestic flights? I fly at least multiple times a month - but it’s economy so I don’t make the top of the long upgrade lists, either. I get that some of them are probably people who fly a couple times a week and just have insane status but… all of them? Are there actually companies who fly certain people business class as a policy?
@hacks4pancakes IBM "used" do this if flight was over 5 timezones but that fell away a long time ago.. For me a company willing to allow leaving a day early was more beneficial.