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And on the day of travel, Continental will sell the seat to a non-elite as a day-of-purchase upgrade, because that's revenue management regardless of what their policy states.
That statement may not be necessary 100% correct.
CO Insider has stated before that they will only sell seats in first class to non-elites if there are more seats in first class available than there are elites on the upgrade list. Now there may have been a few mistakes here and there, but that is what I hope they were, mistakes.