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Old Oct 18, 2013 | 10:14 am
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Originally Posted by wxalex
Hello,

I just made platinum for the first time. I have a flight coming up from SFO-IAD and have applied an RPU. I have been waitlisted. It seems like from this thread, I cannot trust the system to automatically upgrade me when space becomes available. Is that true? Do I really need to watch the flight for R space?
Trust but verify. The system has lots of opportunities to skip over folks patiently/passively waiting for their upgrade. The proactive traveler can, and often does secure the upgrade. I would watch for R space.
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