Originally Posted by
Steve007NY
Partner and I are ticketed OnDL 840 LGA-PBI this Thursday . I'm platinum, he's gold. One PNR so we could upgrade with my status. We grabbed the seats in EC, since at the time of booking FC was wide open. Took A & B in last row of EC,even though our preferences are always aisle/aisle bulkhead. Now, looking at the seat chart, the plane is essentially sold out with one or two coach tickets still left.
This is one of those rare occasions where we don't actually have to arrive on any particular schedule where were headed. (Visiting my mom in South Florida). Anyone have any sense of the likelihood of our being asked to give up our seats for a flight the next day? Usually, we find ourselves in the situations when we absolutely have to arrive on time but in this case, leaving on Friday would be no big deal. In fact, The 10:29 AM flight on Friday looks wide-open and would actually be preferable for us. Better seats in EC and first class is wide open.
Any advice on how to maximize our chances to be bumped to that flight? Frankly, we would probably take it with no additional reimbursement but of course a few hundred bucks of deal CREDIT would never hurt :-)
Your current flight is probably pretty close to being oversold if it isn't already as a dummy booking is only selling full Y fares. Usually when they need to VDB for the last flight of the day they will put you on the first flight in the AM which is at 8:10am out of LGA. If you do VDB, you could ask the agent if they could put you on the 10:30am flight but that's up to the GA or red coat. If you really want to increase your UG odds than ask if they can put you on DL 4059 JFK-PBI at 9:00am on a CR9. Pretty much the entire C+ cabin is empty and there are still 10 seats in F still.