Originally Posted by
undersky
Hi Friends,
I have been wait-listing for the following segments:
8/31 SFO-HKG, R to U upgrade
9/8 HKG-SFO, R to U upgrade
When I checked today, the 9/8 upgrade was cleared, so that leaves me thinking I probably won't clear 8/31 until shortly before departure, if it ever clears.
I checked seat map and found that:
8/30, J class has 21 unassigned seats out of 49
8/31, J class has 15 unassigned seats out of 49.
My question is, shall I change my departure date to 8/30 for a better chance of upgrade?
In other words, do you think think for a flight 5 weeks in the future, a 15/49 full J cabin means I have an extremely high probability of scoring an upgrade? If not, maybe I should switch?
Thanks guys!
-Undersky
May be. But unassigned seat does not tell you much, especially when the date is still month ahead.
I was trying to get a C class award ticket on TG and the return leg on TG409 was on waiting list, and I got confirmed on the earlier flight.
The agent actually told me that the chance is fair, although I saw only 1-2 seat avail when I did dummy booking. She told me there are many bookings have not been ticketed, and will be auto cancel closer to the date.
She asked me to wait but since I do not want to deal with the issuing ticket hassle when I am on the other part of the world, I told her just issue the ticket.
Moral of the story, seat assignment only tells half of the stories.