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Old Feb 4, 2012 | 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by mingw
My data: missed upgrade 7/38 segments this year as EXP
Well if you were doing all those SFO-ORD/DFW in the month of January, thats hardly surprising

Originally Posted by lovexylitol
On my experience of 22 legs of dfw-sfo in jan

about 4 (mostly redeye) was maybe 80% full

Exactly 4 were offering vouchers for bump

About 2 said full flight but the seat next to me was empty in y (yay!)

The rest was jam packed and i got 0 upgrades on those 22 flights (partially since i bought them very late but also most of these flights had 20+ upgrade lists)
Remember everyone, late January is usually a pretty dead time for travel.
I've seen full F from upgrades the whole month while coach on 5-6 times barely 50 percent.
I know I haven't seen a college chick the whole month in F or Y since Jan 10th
Its all been suits or consultants or mileage runners the whole month.
At least everyone knows how to get through security ^

If we start getting close to spring break and the loads are still this bad, then there is definitely a concern.
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