Originally Posted by
MelesMeles
To be fair, the other side of the coin is that in future, SWUs won't book into R, but into any available F seats, so availability of confirmed-at-booking upgrades should increase on the most heavily used routes.
I believe this to be wholly and completely false. Please provide a source that suggests SWU-based upgrades will not continue to be capacity controlled.
The trade-off is more SWUs (6 to start and more as you accrue more EQMs), not that the new ones are easier to use in any way.