GAs still will need to come onboard and upgrade customers accordingly whether they revert back to the coupon upgrade system or stick with CPU.

There are so many elites now that the upgrade list will easily have more elites than F seats available the vast majority of the time.

I am going to fail clearing my CPU tomorrow on both flights and settle at 5/12 on my CPUs YTD. The second flight, I am exactly half way down the upgrade list as a 1K. After this trip, I will not have any revenue tickets booked on UA, somewhat weird for me, but UA did that to themselves with all of the cuts out of PIT making it incredibly difficult to have my schedule work around UA's significantly limited options that is only going to get worse with the LAX flight getting axed [E145 flights to IAH/DEN is not an option for me either].