Originally Posted by
spin88
(1) upgrades are hard to get to IAH, to EWR, forget about it unless you get a full Y, and then only if you do it way ahead of time. it used to be easy when they flew 757s with 24 seats, now its 738s with 14 seats (used to be 18 but they took out seats, now a few planes are back to 18).
CO has not removed any FC seats from their 738s. They have differently configured ones and the 738s with 14F have all been added 2 additional FC seats.
(5) and my pet peave was always that CO would not slot me in ahead of the ma and pa kettles on a flight. Many times I would arrive at EWR or IAH to find my flight to SFO delayed, go to the earlier flight get added to the weight list and find a bunch of ma and pa kettles getting on while I got to wait for my two hour delayed flight. Power to the Ma and Pa kettles, and for them its a good deal, not such a good deal for me, who paid 4 times as much for my ticket.
Their standby policy has changed and is now prioritized by elite status.