Originally Posted by
hockey7711
I think the difference that you see now is that CO gives all the non-elites a buyup offer so a lot of people windup in FC who never would have even made it on the list to begin with.
You mean people buying F seats, right?
The non-elite "buy-up" on that route is a fare difference to a seat in the first class cabin. Hard to be too upset about not getting the upgrade when folks are willing to pay the asking fare for the F seat.