Originally Posted by
johnden
...There is still a line, you know there is a line...
No, I don't know that there is a line. If I'm waitlisted and a flight goes to R1, I may be the only one on the list and yet some yahoo could make a new booking and snag MY upgrade right out from under me.
I'm calling in and pulling the upgrade, then reapplying. Until this gets fixed, all's fair in love, war, and upgrades.
Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
...Luckily, my travel is flexible enough that I never waitlist...
Almost always the case for me as well. However, if the domestic portion of a trip is waitlisted at booking and then goes to R>0, I'm calling in. I posted an example of this upthread, and two agents refused to clear the upgrade, leading me to speculate that the agents have been issued a memo regarding the practice of clearing waitlisters into R manually.
By the way, in that case the international leg had gone to R0 so the pull/reapply trick was too dangerous (R inventory may not have been reinstated).