Originally Posted by
donsullivan
As a PM, I have my profile set to only auto-upgrade to First, not C+ due to lousy seats often in c+. I used the seat map to determine if decent seats were available and then if they were I'd select the option and do the immediate upgrade to C+ right after booking. If this profile affects everyone (no reason to believe it doesn't) I'll loose my option for immediate C+ upgrades going forward since I can't see what seats are available. I'm not giving up my exit row for a C+ middle seat.
You can now downgrade yourself on the website if you don't like your C+ seat. There's little reason to turn off the request for C+ upgrades at this point other than in gate upgrade situations where you may not have a chance to reverse it. By the way, I have no problem seeing available seats in lower classes of service, contrary to OP's claim. Also, flights where there are upgrade offers to F are showing the F seatmaps for me. Don't know if my case is unusual, but all my domestic bookings are currently showing upgrade offers. It's only my international flights (where there are no upgrade offers), where they are showing D1 as full.
By the way, there are already two existing threads on this topic. OP you are a bit late with your "scoop".
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ctly-full.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ap-issues.html