Originally Posted by
iahphx
So there are 3 possibilities here: 1) Despite widely accepted conventional wisdom, what's posted on the website is not the Airport Upgrade Standby List (this seems doubtful to me); 2) there are 19 other GS and 1K members who booked higher fare categories than me on the flight (I think this is a statistical improbability); 3) despite what the website states, certain pax with higher bucket fares are getting to the top of the Airport Upgrade Standby List regardless of their status (seems by far the most probable).
If it is indeed #3, status is even less valuable than I already thought.
Are you saying that at T-24, as a 1K, you should automatically jump ahead of (a) lower status pax on instruments, and (b) lower status pax on Y/B fares? And that your status is somehow "devalued" if you do not get to cut in front of them? You're certainly entitled to your theories and opinions, but this doesn't make much sense to me.