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Old May 15, 2017 | 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by yohanson
I just booked a flight to and from LAS through Concur. After the invoice was emailed to me about 10 minutes after booking, I went to delta.com to choose to be "upgraded" to C+ but I was already "upgraded" and C+ seats were selected for me. Even before Delta considered that an upgrade, I still had to go in and pick those seats after booking. Is this a fluke or a welcome change?
This would be a decidedly UNwelcome change for me. There are many flights where I do not want the C+ UG because I have a more desirable seat in Main Cabin. For this reason, I have C+ upgrades defaulted to "not requested" on DL.com.

My company just started using Egencia and it sucks. I've noticed that when booking flights there, it automatically selects the boxes for both C+ and FC upgrades, ignoring DL.com settings. Luckily, something else is broken in the ticketing handoff, as I have to go in and uncheck, then re-check the C+ box to process/claim an available upgrade (or not re-check it if I want to stay in an exit row or whatever).

It'll be a mess if that starts being automatic, as it will mean a call to DL to get un-upgraded, and I suspect they'll have issues managing the ticket that was booked via an OTA. Grumble...

Didn't DL say a while back that they were going to improve the UG selections to allow people to specify they only wanted a C+ UG if it was to an aisle/window? Whatever happened with that?
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