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Old Sep 7, 2012 | 11:31 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Originally Posted by goalie
Yet PMUA phone agents were able to do just this very thing if an upgrade did drop from the waitlist [which was the exception and not the rule as with PMUA, a waitlisted upgrade carried over to t-4 hours where it then seamlessly rolled over to the airport waitlist]
Welcome to September 2012. That option doesn't exist anymore.
No kidding and no need to be snarky

But how about this...

Why take a feature that worked away? Was it because the new system simply didn't have that capability? Or perhaps it cost too much to implement? Or perhaps the goal was to purposely eliminate that cspabilityt to accommodate ToD'$ as opposed to rewarding loyalty? Or perhaps it is simply saying that SHARES and its assorted subsystems fall into the old joke of "Windows 98 equals Mac 1984" where SHARES is windows 98

Regardless, as quirky as PMUA's system was, it worked and what has occurred in, as you put it "2012", has been a classic case of going against "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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