Originally Posted by
zabes64
But to say that if there are 8 Revenue seats left that CO will automatically upgrade 8 people is not true, they base it on how many revenue they think they will sell last minute and also if they don't sell those, I am sure they try and pull upsell revenue on those too, hence the upgrade waitlist during the check-in process.
Assuming there are 8+ elites on the flight still seated in Y CO will either upgrade them or "upsell" to non-elites. But those upsells are based on the fare difference between the originally purchased ticket and a fare that gets them into the F cabin. For non-elites that would be Z or higher. Those customers are basically buying a seat in F, just in two transactions rather than all at once.
Originally Posted by
Dyce
So if I'm reading this correctly, I just qualified for UA 1K, I no longer get my CR-1'a until I do 75K MORE miles next year, and I don't get any SWU's until mid-2011. That's outrageous! Tell me I'm wrong...
Actually the post you quoted is about collecting CO SWUs and it is only for folks who cross the 100K EQM/120 EQP threshold on the CO side. It has nothing to do with UA SWUs.