MRLIMO,

Thanks for the advice. The problem with the no-upgrade was due to the fact that I'm Plat on NW, and no elite (yet) on CO, and was using OnePass account for the bonuses. Sometimes, certain CO agents are getting on my nerves, as they refuse to honor my NW Platinum status, when accruing mileage on CO OnePass. A call to the NW WP Dedicated line usually fixes the problem, but the other night in Vegas, somehow (maybe with the CO supervisor's help, or maybe just a mistake on the NW agent side) my LAS-EWR segment got cancelled mysteriously. The CO agents would not do anything to put me back, even though I already had a boarding pass for the flight. At boarding time, it turned out there were two seats available, so I ended up making the flight, but, boy, what shameless behavior on CO side... Not to mention, that the CO supervisor was claiming there were no FC seats on the following segment, yet, NW WP agent got me one, and it turned out there were only 3 people flying in FC on that flight... It's been a while since I've seen an empty FC seat on a CO and NW flights...

Anyway, I should have planned the itenarary better, as I could not attent the FT get-together in Vegas, that same night. Oh, well, next time, maybe.

Anyone flying EWR-BRU (Wed) or BRU-EWR (Sun)? There are still promo-fare seats ($350 r/t incl. taxes) available on http://www.continental.com .
It's Q class, i.e. non-upgradeable, but can't complain about the price. And it'll bring a hefty 70+K in bonuses.

Cheers,
sp