Originally Posted by RobOnLI

I, too, have just purchased a ticket on Northwest (012) that includes a segment on AS in "Y" class.

I used my AS confirmation number to pull up my reservation on alaskaair.com and lo-and-behold AS actually recognizes my Plat status and allows me to choose from Premium coach seats and the exit rows. Definitely a ^

I also thought that as of March 1 we were going to receive automated upgrades on Alaska. Maybe that's not in place yet?

Unfortuantely I'm in London right now so I'm not going to call back to the US and ask Alaska about upgrades. I know in 2008 we would have just used one of our certs (which expired Feb 28, 2008) to immediately upgrade a Y fare.

It would be a total bummer to have the game changed where Y fares are only upgradeable at the gate as well.

If someone happens to call AS and gets an answer to this, can they please post it here? Otherwise, I will call them when I get back to the States this weekend and will let everyone know what I find out.

Thanks,
RM