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Old Nov 12, 2010, 5:48 am
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hbush
 
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Originally Posted by williamducles
I think their strategy is to upgrade only economy class customers, not the regular business class customers or the customers who also travel occasionally business full fare. Optiontown upgrade is only designed to attract the economy class customers.
Well, my experience is different. I have very "mixed history" of flying in different classes including full fare business and sometimes first when it exists and is available. Nevertheless sometimes I get Optiontown upgrades and sometimes don't Haven't collected any statistics though. Well, that's just kind of gambling but why not? You don't loose anything beyond small transaction fee.
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