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Old Jan 23, 2016 | 2:42 pm
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Terence.Hill
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Originally Posted by cfischer
I repeatedly miss CPUs on high fares. Recently M and B on EWR-BOS flights, or W with GPU waitlisted.
What I see is that it either clears for me almost irrespective of the booking class, or it does not. Very rarely do I win a battlefield where I am near certain there are other 1Ks behind me on lower fare classes.
As a GS I missed 4 out of 5 RPUs YTD on lower fares, while even 1Ks had CPUs clearing ahead of my RPU . I even had the gate agent pull ahead a 1K behind me on #1 of the upgrade list, when one seat opened up after boarding ended.

Fare class only influences the position within a tier as long as nobody takes any action to override that manually !

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