Originally Posted by
Hartmann
AUS-IAH shuttle flights are interesting to watch, I've ridden an empty 753 to AUS, but mostly it's 739s.
And several years ago when I was a Gold I sat in Y on an oversold 753 on IAH-AUS on a Sunday night. They needed something like 15 volunteers to fly the next morning, and even with 24 F seats, not all Platinums were upgraded. The guy next to me, in a middle seat in the exit row, was a Platinum traveling on a K fare.