Originally Posted by
eturowski
I found a glitch on EF this morning. I was looking at ATL-BOS flights on DL and saw RU/RP = 9 on flight 1200, which seemed pretty unlikely, but it was on a 738 after a holiday weekend, so I figured it was possible. I called in to re-book to that flight because the first leg of my previous itinerary had been delayed and was causing an illegal connection. However, when I re-booked, I was placed onto an upgrade waitlist of 34 passengers, and the RU/RP inventory had magically disappeared within minutes. Any ideas what happened? I thought if RU/RP was available, then it should mean that any Medallions on the flight within their upgrade windows should have already been upgraded, which would mean that there shouldn't be a waitlist. Did EF "imagine" upgrade inventory?
No, we do not make up the inventory numbers, they are what are returned to us by the airline or GDS. Since you looked at the flight on the day of departure, it's likely either the inventory numbers were changing rapidly, or it was a side effect of DL actively working with the upgrade list to upgrade passengers already on the waiting list. It's also possible that the upgrade list was even longer then 34 pax and 9 people were upgraded.