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Old Jun 20, 2012 | 11:00 pm
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Originally Posted by LilAbner
The fly in the ointment with this whole thing is quite obvious. A guy is on a waitlist for nearly a year with an RPU applied and at T-24 the RPU goes into Limbo. A few hours later an "R" or "RN" becomes available and bingo someone else that is constantly monitoring calls and grabs the upgrade that the first guy has applied for several months previously and didn't get because he needs to check in and beat it on out to the gate and see what happens.

Pretty screwed up, huh?

Moreover, what about the other ancillary systems that CO uses? Say the upsell system (TOD), which sees the open R space and behaves accordingly?
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