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flying for gold elite
Not to mention the mega-million lottery chance of an op-up. Only plats are entitled to even be considered.
What are you basing this on? CO doesn't have a carrier-wide policy specific to how op-ups are processed. And I recently was on a flight where there were 9 op-ups and I'm pretty certain that not all of them were platinum elite, mostly since I was still only gold at the time.