Dec 5, 2013, 6:52 am
Last edit by: aztimm
To check the upgrade list for your flight:
1. Go to the flight status page of the US mobile website
2. Click on the appropriate date and flight number
3. Click on, "upgrade list," on the top right.
1. Go to the flight status page of the US mobile website
2. Click on the appropriate date and flight number
3. Click on, "upgrade list," on the top right.
Standby List and Upgrade List now on US Airways Mobile Website
Dec 6, 2013, 9:40 am
#61
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They should be separate lists...but they usually clear the upgrade list first so they then have room to seat passengers on standby in C. That's generally my experience. I've been seated in C and then the agent comes back and asks me to move up to F so they can seat a standby passenger in my seat.
YMMV, of course. Sounds like you have a story...do tell...
YMMV, of course. Sounds like you have a story...do tell...
I believe I had read here before that the required process is that someone must be on the flight before they can be upgraded into F. That suggests the upgrade list gets processes first and then the standby list.
Dec 6, 2013, 9:53 am
#62
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Jim
Dec 6, 2013, 11:56 am
#63
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Still not in the iPhone app
Although the functionality is apparently still not in the mobile app, nothing prevented me from saving the url for the mobileapp status page as a bookmark in Safari on my iPhone 5. Works just fine and I don't have to keep my laptop out and running just to check the upgrade list. I wonder how many times one of you guys leapfrogged me on the UG list by re-checking in ... 
Dec 7, 2013, 9:58 pm
#64
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Dec 8, 2013, 9:43 am
#65
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The answers are in this thread, please let this thread die.
Dec 9, 2013, 4:31 pm
#66
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One caveat to the upgrade trick, it doesn't work if your flight is delayed and a seat becomes available after the original departure time. It tells you that you can't check in after departure time has passed.
Dec 9, 2013, 5:05 pm
#67
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I scored another one of these this morning CLT - IAH. I checked in 24 hours out and was #1 on the upgrade list. All day yesterday no F seats showed as available. This morning when I woke up at 6AM I checked and sure enough it showed 1F. I quickly "changed seats" and was able to select 1D. Woo hoo. Presumably I would have gotten it anyway since I was #1 on the upgrade list but someone checking in that morning who had any elite status could have snagged it had they done their first check-in.
Dec 10, 2013, 1:56 pm
#68
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That is a good point!
I scored another one of these this morning CLT - IAH. I checked in 24 hours out and was #1 on the upgrade list. All day yesterday no F seats showed as available. This morning when I woke up at 6AM I checked and sure enough it showed 1F. I quickly "changed seats" and was able to select 1D. Woo hoo. Presumably I would have gotten it anyway since I was #1 on the upgrade list but someone checking in that morning who had any elite status could have snagged it had they done their first check-in.
I scored another one of these this morning CLT - IAH. I checked in 24 hours out and was #1 on the upgrade list. All day yesterday no F seats showed as available. This morning when I woke up at 6AM I checked and sure enough it showed 1F. I quickly "changed seats" and was able to select 1D. Woo hoo. Presumably I would have gotten it anyway since I was #1 on the upgrade list but someone checking in that morning who had any elite status could have snagged it had they done their first check-in.
Dec 10, 2013, 5:01 pm
#69
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Looks like I fell "victim" to this trick on my current Las-Clt flight. Ck'd in at t-24 and was satisfied with my #1 upgrade waitlist positioned. Wasn't upgraded at gate, and upon updating myself with this thread,re-checked the waitlist. Now#2, with first psg successful in FC upgrade.
The only sign you'll see on the upgrade list of the method described earlier is that the number of seats available will decrease. Nobody would show confirmed if they upgraded by re-checking-in.
Dec 11, 2013, 5:24 am
#70
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If the person upgraded had done so by going through at check in, they wouldn't show up on the upgrade list. Sounds like someone with higher upgrade priority than you was added to the upgrade list and then cleared at the gate.
The only sign you'll see on the upgrade list of the method described earlier is that the number of seats available will decrease. Nobody would show confirmed if they upgraded by re-checking-in.
The only sign you'll see on the upgrade list of the method described earlier is that the number of seats available will decrease. Nobody would show confirmed if they upgraded by re-checking-in.
Dec 11, 2013, 3:09 pm
#71
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Any idea if the standby/upgrade lists will appear on the non-mobile site?
Dec 11, 2013, 7:25 pm
#72
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Dec 11, 2013, 8:03 pm
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Oct 2, 2014, 4:35 pm
#74
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Sorry to dig up this old thread, but is the option to add yourself to the standby list typically available for non-US elites in the app or on the website? I can see there are people already on the standby list for my flight tomorrow but can't figure out how to add myself to it. Wondering if the web functionality is only for US elites, and if I have to add myself to the list at the airport.
Oct 2, 2014, 7:50 pm
#75
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Sorry to dig up this old thread, but is the option to add yourself to the standby list typically available for non-US elites in the app or on the website? I can see there are people already on the standby list for my flight tomorrow but can't figure out how to add myself to it. Wondering if the web functionality is only for US elites, and if I have to add myself to the list at the airport.