Originally Posted by
nov11
I don't want to sound rude, but I want to understand the situation. If my flight shows R = 4 now (i.e. < 3 days prior to departure), then the PP, Plats/1K and Gold/1Ps should have cleared by now (since PP/Plat/1K clear 5 days prior and 1P/Gold clear 3 days prior). Even if R>0 and there's a PP in front of me, the PP won't clear because there's a line? Don't CO start clearing the upgrades until R=0?
2) Yes I know there are Plats/PP/1Ks at the same elite level as me!
But if R wasn't available 5 days in advance when the window arrived for PP, Plat, 1K, etc. then no upgrades would have happened then. Same thing if R wasn't available at 3 days out, still nobody would have been upgraded.
What's likely to happen is that the next time the sweep happens, those 4 seats will be filled, starting with the PP, Plat, 1K, etc. and working down from there. Or they will remove some / all of the R inventory because the revenue management system believes they can sell more seats.
The key difference though is that nothing happens until each "sweep" occurs and then the available R inventory is filled according to status. No R inventory at that instant = no upgrades happen then until the next sweep.