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sbm12
Nothing technically wrong with it that I can see, but I actually am not in favor of it.
CO already tells us where we stand on the list. I don't really think that they should be publishing even more internal data on their sales numbers for every flight online for other companies to see. And knowing WHY you are where you are on the list may make you feel better, but it isn't going to stop the actual problems - the real shenanigans - from happening and messing things up.
I would agree with this one.
I would have a problem with it also from a privacy standpoint. Publishing seat numbers side by side with fare information would bother me. It is way too much. If I had so little confidence that the technology wasn't processing the list in the way CO said that it would... well I would have to really think twice about investing my loyalty to that airline. As said, the real issues tend not to be with the technology.
The way I see it...if an upgrade clear, it clears--great. If not, it means somebody with higher status or who paid more got it instead (or both)...I tend not to sweat it too much. I am certainly not going to obsess with details as if I had only bought the ticket a week earlier I would have been the one who won in a tie breaking situation.