Originally Posted by
tarmac
Thanks for posting this resource. It's great.
My partner and I are both Diamonds and the last four or five flights from JFK - SEA; ATL - SEA/PDX we were not upgraded. We thought for sure that something was amiss. When I tried to check it out, the awards chart said that Diamond Discounted fares upgraded before Platinum fares. This made me wonder if a higher fare platinum would be upgraded. The person I talked with, when I read this, didn't know what it meant. The information she had didn't specifically address my question.
Welcome to the not so new reality of phone agents not knowing the answer and making up something to tell you to end the call.