Originally Posted by eleventy

I'm sitting in 1A on a flight from SFO to SEA and overheard an interesting conversation between the gate agent and flight attendants. The GA had just come on board to pull a couple of people from the back to fill empty F seats. The FA stopped the GA on his way out and told him there had been a recent memo ending such upgrades, apparently for departure timing reasons. The FAs seemed pretty upset about the GA being on board at all.

Has anybody else heard about this? There is a possibility this would only applies to regional flights, or that the FA was misinformed (but they were both adamant).