Originally Posted by
sbm12
Or maybe they actually care about their elites and are willing to extend them certain benefits on award seats for their family/friends. No reason to think that it is necessarily a negative, though I know that can be difficult sometimes. Oh, and if you read carefully you'll see that the ELR seats were being charged for in this particular case. And everyone gets one free bag to AUA. So those aspects of it are not "givaways" from CO. Much easier to keep the negative attitude if you do not bother paying attention to the actual facts, huh?
So you're saying that it would never give away a bag or extra legroom seat for free? I'm not sure about that. I've seen it preassign exit rows before for free. Heck, on my last CO trip, my companion was in F, and she was offered an ELR seat in Y for a fee. But that's a different bug.
Also, are we sure it would not have allowed the baggage waivers to the Plat level? I've seen that before as well.
Just because those symptoms didn't apply to the OP's ticket doesn't mean the overall bug to which you were referring doesn't have these issues. In fact, it's had them for a while, and I think you know that. But I didn't mean to get in the way of your attempt to distract from the underlying bug, even if you're well aware of its symptoms.