Originally Posted by
6rugrats
You may want to check and see if this is what happened. Mr. R is on a flight that was booked by the travel agency for his work. I noted that he had a cleared upgrade that he/I did not request and wondered if it was complimentary. When I went to check in for this flight this morning, it asked me how I wanted to support this upgrade. I have never seen a free upgrade that was cleared in advance unless it was on a Y or B fare. I'd check so you get no surprises at checkin and find that all the good seats in Y are gone.
Yep ... I'd be reasonably worried if that wasn't a domestic Y or B fare.
Anyone can request an ug for you ... including an unskilled agent who types in something into the wrong field. And if you are short of instruments, the options range from paying, being downgraded to a inferior seat, to an outright IDB.