Originally Posted by
HoustonConsultant
IAH to SEA at 2:35p. 16 seats, 8 booked, and 8 checked in.
Dozen people on upgrade list, but hey, maybe 8 people will buy FC seats in the next two hours.
IAH-PHL @ 7:41pm. 20 seats, 7 booked, 6 checked in. 24 on waitlist. 13 will buy-up, according to Elite Desk rep

I guess he is giving a standard answer the $mi$ek told them to.
This started happening this weekend as my Friday's upgrade happened last Sunday. Probably some kind of system glitch between UA and CO trying to merge some functions. Coincidentally I was dropping off my parents yesterday pm and their flight had 12 empty FC seats. Saw GA at the last moment holding a handfull of BP and calling all 12 pax and exchanging their BPs.
Annoying.