Originally Posted by
jarusoba
Your credits would be deducted as soon as you requested for upgrade and be placed on the WL. I had a request made on YYZ-FRA-MXP when R=0 for the YYZ-FRA segment. My credit disappeared as soon as I requested the upgrade. It took a few days for them to open up the YYZ-FRA R seat and my upgrade cleared a few days after my credit were deducted.
This is worse than I have thought.
In the past, if I have only one cert. left, I can request an upgrade on both the outbound and the inbound to see which one clears first. Alternatively, so long as I can find someone on the same flight (but not necessarily on the same reservation) willing to use one of his/her cert. for my upgrade, I am fine.
Another convenience discontinued. Thanks to those who insisted on electronic upgrades.