Originally Posted by
DLFan2
I don't know if they do or if they don't have the actual upgrade list, but on a recent international flight, the purser upgraded quite a large number of Y pax using her flight manifest. They may not have the upgrade list, but they do have a list that shows medallion status of their passengers.
How do you know that those weren't nonrevs that the purser was upgrading? Pursers and FAs are forbidden to upgrade revenue passengers, but they can upgrade nonrevs, usually by casually asking the captain, just as the captain can direct a nonrev pilot to take a cockpit jumpseat or sit if FC or....