Originally Posted by darthlemsip

The paid upgrade thing happens a lot at US airports, you either get someone who knows about them, or someone that tells you they don't sell them. I had a small disagreement with someone who told me they have never sold them at DFW , despite the fact I had bought one there 2 weeks previously, and she told me I must have been thinking of my home airport...

As for JFK, sounds horrible, but have never experienced anything like that myself.

Assume you're on the 114? If you wave towards the Hilton on the far side past all the BA 747's, I'm sat in there looking back that way