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Old Mar 3, 2016 | 9:48 pm
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Originally Posted by ATOBTTR
It's the YCA fare, which is treated as a Full Y fare that is helping you see all those upgrades. I too have gotten upgrades on routes that PMs would otherwise likely have no shot of an upgrade on because I was on a YCA fare.
Upgrade Priority is:
UG request using a GUC
UG request using a RUC
DM on a Full Y fare
PM on a Full Y fare
GM on a Full Y fare
FO on a Full Y fare
DM on all other fare buckets: B, M, S, H, Q, K, L, U, T, X, V, Award Ticket
PM on all other fare buckets: B, M, S, H, Q, K, L, U, T, X, V, Award Ticket
GM on all other fare buckets: B, M, S, H, Q, K, L, U, T, X, V, Award Ticket
FO on all other fare buckets: B, M, S, H, Q, K, L, U, T, X, V
Medallions with non-status companions requesting upgrades
I reckon I'll be the first to point out (the obvious) that YCA fares are NOT even close to "full Y fares". They're deeply discounted Y fares. Not sure where that fits into the above matix.
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