Originally Posted by
sbm12
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.
Wouldn't you qualify an overbooking of eight as a little unique? Yes there is no official policy, but it is most probable the concierge would look to the plats first for op-ups.