Take on upgrading

One of the most disappointing things I have learned recently is that Delta is now treating cross country flights like they do international flights when it comes to upgrades. For years they have eliminated any upgrades when you fly over the pond or to Asia forcing you to cough up the big bucks if you wanted to have any hope of shut-eye but now they are implementing the same policy when flying from the West Coast to the East Coast and visa versa. They explain to me that even as a medallion member with nearly 500,000 miles under his belt in the last five years, they will not upgrade you anymore because it wouldn't be fair to be upgraded on a 3000 mile flight from NYC to LAX but not have the same advantage when flying from NYC to London as the flight time is equal. Fairness sucks and if they really care about it they would let airport kiosks upgrade you on international flights, also, as opposed to taking the cross country upgrade away but this is life on a traveling salesman in 2015. All joys and perks have been stripped away even as the cost has soared.