Originally Posted by
SFO_FT
I looked at a few (actually, many) CO flights during 2011~2012 and couldn't any difference in the number of seats allocated to the non-elite vs elite buckets for prem class travel, either free or award. i.e.,
I've seen the elite inventory higher in many cases and the same in many others. No guarantees, to be sure. But I've definitely had instances where being elite got me seats that otherwise would have not been available.
Originally Posted by
SFO_FT
Am assuming that the xN buckets are actually sub-buckets
Sortof...O is a subset of ON, for example, not the other way around, if they're doing it right.
Originally Posted by
boat9781
It is interesting because non-elites could potentially mileage upgrade while elites were waiting for EUAs at their respective windows.
They already give folks using miles or other instruments priority over EUA on the CO side and the new program will have that same policy for the CPU process. I'm not so sure that this is a real issue to worry about.