ITO upgrade chances?
#1
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Eugene, OR
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ITO upgrade chances?
Flying ITO-LAX in mid June (redeye obviously) with my daughter, and I'm wondering whether it's worth it to burn a CR-1 on this route. I've only flown it once before and cleared as a 1P. Does anyone have other data points suggesting this is an easy upgrade?
#3
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Honolulu, HI
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ITO upgrade chances?
The reduction on capacity to Hawaii (and smaller planes subs with far less FC seats) have made my upgrade go down from almost 100% to about 80% as 1K based in HNL. It basically depend on the days you fly (Thursday night from HNL tends to be bad for me).
I have no base point for ITO though, however I would not be extremely confident about getting a CPU as 1P, but also not overly negative.
I have no base point for ITO though, however I would not be extremely confident about getting a CPU as 1P, but also not overly negative.
#5
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as a 1P i have had poor success with CPU to/from HNL and fairly good luck to/from other islands. its CPU so it is unpredictable but my last flights SFO-KOA-SFO i cleared well in advance on both on a G fare.
#6
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This is good to know. Thanks for the responses. I'm not too worried about my clearing as a 1K, but am a little more concerned about my daughter. Since she's 5, no way we can split the PNRs. I may burn the RPU (4 Rs available right now), take my chances, and yank her bank into Y if I don't get the upgrade.
#7
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This is good to know. Thanks for the responses. I'm not too worried about my clearing as a 1K, but am a little more concerned about my daughter. Since she's 5, no way we can split the PNRs. I may burn the RPU (4 Rs available right now), take my chances, and yank her bank into Y if I don't get the upgrade.
Then again that maybe how they will Downgrade her then, my advice is to do teh samething thing for both of You
#8
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This is good to know. Thanks for the responses. I'm not too worried about my clearing as a 1K, but am a little more concerned about my daughter. Since she's 5, no way we can split the PNRs. I may burn the RPU (4 Rs available right now), take my chances, and yank her bank into Y if I don't get the upgrade.
#9
Join Date: Aug 2011
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Unless the flight is almost completely full, all fare classes will open up between T-24 and T-3, so this might not be such a big issue.
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