Originally Posted by
mendicantmonk
Super weird upgrade experience today flying a LAX-BOS transcon.
- Tried to upgrade myself with RPU weeks before flight. Waitlisted. Lots of F availability until 2 days before flight, suddenly F cabin fills
up completely. Upgrades getting processed before me at a window cutoff time or did a lot of seats suddenly sell? Or a system glitch that explains what happened later? Who knows.
Any other theories?
Perhaps the F cabin suddenly filled up with last-minute purchases. This may not have anything to do with being on a new reservation system, and the changes that it may have brought, or not.
I flew SFO-IAD next day return twice in 2 weeks, in February. All four flights had ~8-9 seats in F open for weeks until about 2 days before the flight, then they suddenly filled up. This was pre-merger, so GS and 1K were clearing UG's at 120 and 100 hrs, well ahead of 2 days prior to the flight. Yet, I watched both the F and E seats and it didn't seem that anyone was moving en masse from E to F at those windows, nor afterward.
Then again, I don't have a lot of visibility into what has changed between then and now.
