Originally Posted by
fassy
You might have screwed up your own plan.
If you did the following:
1) Apply for Plus + Business Upgrade via OptionTown for flight A
2) Apply for Plus Upgrade through Confirmed Point upgrades
2) will be usually cleared pretty much in advance of the departure date and they will exchange the ticket. It might be that OT will not be able to find the new ticket to clear their upgrade or they push it out of the queue as you were messing around with the reservation, e.g. they can't sell you a Y upgrade anymore as you're in Y already.
That your confirmed upgrade cleared was an pretty clear indication that the flight was oversold since they only clear the confirmed upgrades if the flight is overbooked or has award seats available in the new cabin class. Based on that I think the OT upgrades would have cleared.
Thanks for useful info. I actually contacted OT customer support beforehand and asked about this, since I registered for OT for this flight before the SAS web upgrade request. They claimed that getting a confirmed point upgrade to Plus would not have any impact on my OT Business upgrade request. But then.. their customer support rep might have been wrong about this..