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Jul 15, 2010, 8:24 am

#1077

bdemaria

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Originally Posted by MIA-SAT

I requested the C upgrade 7 months ago for me and my wife for 7-31. During a random check on Expert Flyer back in March, I found 1 seat in C bucket for my wife. Now 16 days out as an EXP still no upgrade, but there are still 5 seats in J and 5 in F (although the hope there is some J passenger will get an op upgrade and free a seat for me.) This is the longest I have ever reserved in advance without the upgrade

Do you have a lot of SWUs in your account? If so and the upgrade hasn't cleared by the date of the flight, check w/the GA to see if you can use one to upgrade someone from J to F, and then upgrade yourself from Y to J. Just don't do this until you confirm that you could get the open J seat.

Last edited by bdemaria; Jul 15, 2010 at 9:05 am