Originally Posted by
carsonheim
yuppers. Ma and Pa Kettle may decide to splurge on their ticket and spend $79 at checkin to get the first class seats, as a special treat. They will be rewarded for their once-per-14-years flight with Continental with a nice discounted price for first. You, OP, will go sit in your coach seat that you selected when buying your ticket. Even though you've already spent $12K with CO this year....
..............and what's really stupid is that they will then get luggage fees they would have otherwise had to pay waived. In some cases the tens of Dollars upgrade is cheaper than paying luggage fees. Great policy.