Originally Posted by
lcohen999
No offence, but purchase date is a terrible way to do it. The system they have now does offer the perks depending on fare paid.
Latitude, R and your good or you are put on the list, then the SEs join that list at the 7 day rule for T+, etc. etc....and coming down to the wire, all gets resorted by status, fare class, etc. It does make sense and is fare..I think
The exact our of upgrade kind of sucks when you have a west coast red eye and are still in the east when you have to call in an upgrade.
but....there are worst things in life that getting up for 2 minutes to upgrade and rolling over to go back to sleep
Huh? What I proposed would work just like the current system, except that (a) you wouldn't have to jump online at a certain time to submit your upgrade request, and (b) when the window opens, upgrades would go to whoever bought their ticket first, rather than whoever has Internet access handy at that moment.
I did not suggest any change to the instant Lat upgrade; Lat/T+ is currently the only difference in when you can upgrade. I did not suggest any change to the number of eUpgrade credits that would be required.
Originally Posted by
D582
But again, what would be the point of the windows? Sure, your upgrade would not clear until the 'window time' but given how tightly AC controls R space on many routes, there might not be any R inventory prior to the T+ windows anyways.
You're suggesting yet another list, with yet another set of priority rules. If it would be based on the time the ticket is purchased, then if that list would fill up to the # of J seats physically on the plane at like 6-8 months out with let's say all SE, then there would be absolutely no chance for a SE who bought a ticket closer to the date from getting an upgrade, let alone an E or a P, and that's hardly fair.
Plus this would erode the 'instant upgrade request' benefit from those that purchase Latitude fares
Your question about the purpose of the windows applies equally to the current system. If R is full when a window opens, people get added to the waitlist. Same thing would happen in the system I proposed, except they would be automatically added to the waitlist.
How would the list fill up 6–8 months out? Upgrades would still cost credits; not everyone would request an upgrade. The same number of people would request upgrades as do now, except they could request it at time of purchase, and it would be processed automatically when their window opens.
The overall effect would be the same as if, under the current system, all the T+ pax who wanted to upgrade tried to do it as soon as their window opened, and the tiebreaker for who would get the upgrades (since they'd all be requested at the same time) is ticket purchase date. I think ticket purchase date is much fairer than "whoever has Internet handy and a few minutes free at a certain moment" (which is the current system).