Originally Posted by
njcommodore
Click advanced search. There is a box you can check that says "MileagePlus Upgrade Award". The results page will show which flights have R availability.
They'll never have a good answer for this, but the only thing they can say is the data scrapers can send out alerts to people to "jump the line." But it's a circular argument because the person requesting an upgrade at that time can stumble into the same thing.
So, the MileagePlus Upgrade Award is showing R space?
Maybe this isn't the end of the world, then?
With this "feature" it takes 3x longer to find flights than with EF, but, still, a fraction of what it would take to call and sit on hold with idiots who don't know anything about their own systems for hours on end.
As for the jumping, yes, they've cut the "alert-call" jump routine (which, incidentally, is the **ONLY** way I've ever gotten an upgrade since $mi$ek destroyed the airline), but now all of us sit there and watch our seats disappear from people who happen to book when R opens or happen to call and check at the right time.
If the damn system just worked, this wouldn't be an issue, but as they won't fix it, because their true intention is to eliminate GPU and shift to a pure TOD model, they've now made GPUs worth nothing.