Originally Posted by
Chrisinhouston
It shows 7 of the 20 booked and 5 checked in, 30+ on the UG standby list.
Originally Posted by
star_world
Another day, another hyperbole-ridden post regarding CO upgrades.
The reality is that approx. 13 of those remaining seats will go to "courtesy upgrades". So many people here have repeated this doom and gloom story about how upgrades are non-existent and CO has somehow failed them. The reality is that this is an example of the process working perfectly. Nobody is promised an upgrade a specific period of time before a flight - if no paying pax are expected then CO will happily run EUA several days in advance and everybody gets upgraded.
Two things:
1) The number could be a great deal smaller than 13. I have seen the last 7 seats eaten up by the TOD program, as I was #1 on the wait list, trying to make use of an SWU.
2) There has been something odd with the timing of upgrades recently. Today's flight 1538 (discussed in a different thread) had just 2 booking in F (2/20) all the way up until T-1, and just 5/57 seats occupied in the elite section of the plane... with a Plat still waiting for an upgrade.
At T-1 F went to 7/20 in F leaving the elite section at 0/57.
The plane took off with 9 empty seats in F.
The final outcome was (of course) great for elites.... all silver and companions got seated in F... Still... Why did a Plat not get upgraded before T-1 under these circumstances? That does look a bit odd.
It is plausible that there has been a shift in policy in terms the seat availability for EUA.