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Old Aug 24, 2012 | 10:09 pm
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Originally Posted by jimrgraham
I booked ORD - HKG with less than 24 hours to go and got an upgrade without issue. Plus there had to be 15 seats empty
What fare class, if I may?

Originally Posted by mobilebucky
I have to say CX took a big chunk of that business away from UA. In addition, I still believe UA shoot themselves in the foot by switching HKG-SIN to CO 738. If HKG is not their final destination, I think most people would route through NRT-SIN instead to stick with UA program. Will see how the C seats fill up when 895/6 doing HKG-SIN run again.
Difficult to say - based on CX forum, CX 807 (ORD-HKG) was once fill up its J with all op-up, and that was in May.

Also UA 116/117 (HKG-SIN-HKG) is scheduled to switch back to 744.
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