#2 first talked to the gate agent to make the offer.

The gate agent then went on to the plane to let my daughter know what #2 was offering and then had my daughter follow her back out to the podium. That's when my daughter accepted the offer:


She (my daughter) had brought a bunch of homework to complete, was properly ensconced in 21F with no one in 21E (and row 20 completely empty) and thought it was both simpler to stay in hobo 1st and felt that the $300 was quite reasonable. Also she doesn't usually sleep on planes nor sit in E+ unless she's traveling with me, so she was happy where she was. And, asking her now after the fact, would not change her decision knowing that it was an IPTE seat.

So, after have accepted the $300, got back on the plane and told me about her decision (but none of the details until we landed) and went back to 21F.

That's when I posted - but there's still more.

#2 then boarded, came to me in 2B and asked (politely) if I'd be willing to move to 4A so that he could sit next to his wife who'd been given 2A (which was open for a reason I later found out).

Mindful of a recent thread in this forum as well knowing who'd he paid to be able to get into 1st, I indicated that I wasn't willing to move and that I had selected that seat for a reason. For myself, knowing the catering issues that have happened on US flights, the lack of desire to have to climb over someone to get out to the aisle as well as not sitting with my back against the front E+/Y lavatory, I didn't want to move from 2B - tho' all I'd stated was that I'd picked my seat for a reason.

He and she accepted that I wasn't going to move so she slid over and into 2A for a moment before then sliding back out to the aisle. That's when the person who was in 4B came forward and sat in 2A. He agreed to swap so they could sit together and stated he was willing to do the climb each time he had to get up and out of his seat.

In talking with the former 4B, it turns out he was the other person upgraded after check in. He'd been put into 2A but moved to 4B since, as a 1K, noticed that I'd been upgraded and the next person on the list had the same last name and decided to have 2A available assuming that #1 on the upgrade list was indeed related to LEE, D and then LEE, M could sit in 2A. Wow.

After all was said and done, my daughter is now $300 richer, 2A and 4A got to sit next to each other, I got my CPU (as did 4B) on a Hawaii bound 752 with lie flats, I got the breakfast I wanted, the elites on the flight that were on the upgrade list didn't bite at any of UA's buy up offers either at post non-F ticket purchase, at check-in nor later offers, I didn't have to use an instrument, and had an interesting end post follow up for Flyertalkers to chew on.

(All of that being said, my daughter didn't finish doing her homework, we got to HNL, she's had her tour and meetings at University of Hawaii Manoa and gets to make her decision as to whether she wants to go to this institution of learning.)

David