Originally Posted by
iahphx
OK, thanks. It certainly seems like that MIGHT be the case! Obviously, this is all rather mysterious black-box stuff.
I went ahead and split our records. No downside to this that I can think of -- except perhaps that the computer is less likely to assign us to adjacent seats if we clear (of course, on the flight segment that already cleared, we weren't assigned ANY seats!).
Well, the CPU system seems to still be FUBAR.
So I split the record a few days ago: myself on one (1K) my wife on the other (1K). This is a 737-900 with 20 FC seats. More than half of them were still available 3 days ago. But we never cleared. They were down to 7 seats tonight when check-in became available.
After I checked in, I looked at the upgrade list. My wife was 6th and I was 7th. Seemed pretty terrible (like how many GS could there be?), but I'm now used to being unusually low on the list.
So now, a couple hours later, I look again. I've suddenly been upgraded, and my wife is still 3rd on the list, with the FC cabin booked to 18.
How the heck could I suddenly leapfrog in front of my wife who was originally listed ahead of me? BTW, I also seemed to have leapfrogged ahead of 2 other pax who were originally on the list in front of my wife, and they're still on the waitlist, too.
I just don't have any faith that this "blackbox" processes anything according to any rules.