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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 10:28 am
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wcalvert
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
I am booked in G class from FLL to LAX tomorrow. Upgrade received FLL-IAH, but not IAH-LAX.

I just checked in using the PDA site, and was offered an upgrade for $119 - since the M fare (I'm a Plat) on this segment is $619, and I only paid $275 for the entire round trip ticket, there is NO WAY the $119 represents a M fare buy-up.

This can only be a segment-fee upgrade - which are not suppose to be offered unless there are F seats for every Elite, right?

Yet there are only 7 unsold F seats - and I'm already #3 on the list as Plat, so there is no way the number of unsold F seats is equal to or greater than the number of Elites on this flight.

Update: just refreshed the PDA site, and F is sold out...the upgrade cleared and waitlist are the same, so my guess is a bunch of people took the lowball offer and jumped the line.

So what gives here??
Flying IAH-LAX tomorrow morning myself, although I doubt you are on the 7:30am flight since you are connecting.

Just as a data point, it looks like EUA is running fine on my flight. A couple of people were upgraded when the status came up at T-3 days and the remainder of the seats were filled at T-24.

This silver is sitting nice and pretty and 9/10 on the waitlist with 0 seats left in first hahaha. I was able to get an exit row aisle, which is all I was really hoping for.
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