Originally Posted by
TWA Fan 1
OK, I thoroughly checked tomorrow's flights and here are the numbers:
CO16--2--16--12%
TOTAL BF CAPACITY: 1,098
TOTAL PAX UPGRADED: 89 (30 of those on the two China flights ex-EWR)
% OF TOTAL CAPACITY AS UPGRADES: 8.11%
Of course, this is just a snapshot of one day. Clearly the upgrade situation is dynamic but in most of these flights there is no one currently listed as standing by for upgrades.
We can also assume that there are likely more upgrades in this, the low season, than most of the rest of the year.
On the whole, if this is an accurate snapshot it appears to be a definite improvement over the situation a few years ago, but the upgrade numbers are still fairly low.
You are doing it wrong.
What you should be checking is # of people on the standby list vs # of people upgraded, 1 hour pre-flight. (When CO gives up on selling BF tickets and upgrades all standbys). Unfortunately, after flight departure, pda site removes the "standby" list, so you can't tell if there were any people waiting for upgrade, but you can presume that if booked < capacity, that means everyone on standby list got upgraded, and you can count 100% upgrade rate.
I don't have time to do full test, but first 10 flights that departed today, checking booked v capacity:
CO18: X
CO28: X
CO110: ?
CO138: X
CO54: X
Means out of those 5 flights, on 4 of them, *everyone* that wanted BF upgrade got it.