Originally Posted by demosthenes1

This year my upgrade percentage is down overall (around 70% over all UA flights, down from around 90% two years ago), but it is now lower to and from my home airport than it is for my flights from hubs to the coast. Why? I'm not sure, but I would point to a big decrease in overall capacity and many more no-first regionals, which I think tends to concentrate the HVFs on the planes that do have first.