Originally Posted by
doobierw
Every flight going to DTW today is oversold. That last flight has some seats available in first that I would imagine are being used as the sponge. I suspect the elites will be upgraded, and then the overs accommodated into their empty coach seats.....
Put I just fly the darn things, so I don't know about all that seating priority stuff that goes on out at the gate.
DRW

And if there aren't enough Elites, a few lucky non-Elites could get free F too.