I have been looking at a batch of late NOV early DEC dates for one of my Tokyo trips and on 3 different flights on 8 different days (=24 flights) that I have been watching, upgrade avail went from NC9 yesterday to R3 RN3 today. I also do seat counts when I check for UGs and none of these flights had any seats booked between when I checked yesterday and today.

Has anybody else seen this? Does this mean that the new UA is going to be far stingier with upgrade/award seats?