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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 2:31 pm
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MDSD
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: san diego, ca
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Originally Posted by ORDflyer
If this has been discussed I could not find it, but in searching ExpertFlyer for C inventory ORD-LHR in early January, the EXP desk offered me upgrades from coach to business using SWU's even though no C inventory was showing on the flights (thirty seconds before the call and just after the call). Was I INCREDIBLY lucky to get seats released one or two minutes before the call, or is there some extra C inventory available to EXPs that does not show up on ExpertFlyer.
Actually, your 'incredible luck' lies in being EXP, for whom there is an expanded inventory, as you guessed.
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