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Old Jun 23, 2011 | 9:17 pm
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mrtdxb
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Originally Posted by hjmanasa
Is it still the case where they op up all gold members when the flight is full? A friend has gotten 2 of 6 international segments op up'd to business for zero dollars. I don't know if this is a good sample size or not but does this happen with somewhat regularity?
It is the luck of the draw and chances of op ups are route and load dependent. I have personally not been op upped for 4 years now whereas before that received op ups about 30% of the time!
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