Originally Posted by
dmkorten
Last summer I was Op-Upped from LHR to IAH and I was on a reward ticket. I was platinum at the time. Surely there were a lot of other higher fares ahead of me! The concierge did tell me that I had been Op-Upped because of the high price of my ticket, which was clearly not the case.
Maybe they just looked at the taxes you paid
My personal hope is that the UA mentality survives. OpUps should be done based on status, not fare paid. This is why the EUA/UDU system takes into account status first.
-RM