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Nov 20, 2016 | 3:55 pm

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Originally Posted by lking

Glad to hear you got upgraded. That's a long flight. I don't know if we'll ever know how or why one gets upgraded. Remember the GUCs I waitlisted for y'day? I cleared overnight so there's still half of delta one available and I would have had to waitlist from when I booked months ago if I had intended to use a GUC. Yet I waitlisted y'day and cleared overnight. Of course, half of the C+ seats are still open and they didn't clear anyone into those.

I think it's just a sign of what's to come: our GUCs will get us into C+ in the future, and in order to get to delta one, we'll have to use 2 GUCs. Even if the verbage says differently.

Enjoy SYD.

This sounds like a return to the era of needing to purchase M+ fares to get onto the SWU waitlist lottery, although now one gets a couple inches of legroom, hopefully not in a middle seat, for the extra money.

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