Originally Posted by
entropy
My flying is way down this year. but one observation I made was a recent SFO-YYZ flight, a flight for which there are no reasonable V-up (or discounted F seats), as a 319 was R5 a few days before the flight. I was already in F, my partner (Plat) was on a W fare in coach. The 1K window passed, still R4, plat window, R2, then it goes R0 at the gold window, then the flight swaps to a 320 (+4 seats). He ended up #6 on the list. I have a hard time believing that there were 4 plats/1K/GS on a higher fare (observing the lack of people in exit rows), and the presence of R seats post-GS/1K
I'd like to see who cleared, how and why... because I doubt it was according to the CPU published criteria.
Why do you doubt that there were 4 plats/1K/GS on higher fares? As a 1K I'm often not upgraded -- doesn't seem unlikely that a platinum could experience a similar fate.
IME, just because R>0 and a window has passed doesn't mean that all of the passengers at that level have been upgraded. In fact I've often seen R>0 within 48 hours on flights where I'm still waiting for an upgrade as a 1K.