Originally Posted by
VickiSoCal
Yep, this is what has been happening here for a little while now. Very nice not to worry about people jumping the queue.
I know you don't believe me, but 100% that my wife and I recently upgraded a flight where C was released without clearing the waitlist first. No idea if we actually jumped the queue or not - upgrade list at the gate was shorter than I anticipated. But someone with no/lower status could absolutely have called in and snagged the upgrades if they saw them first. We've also had it happen recently where we clear without ever getting C alerts from EF. But for those of you who aren't worried about queue jumping - well - you should be IMO.