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Old May 11, 2018, 9:52 pm
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Originally Posted by dfreeman02
I applied an RPU to SFO-DEN-ATL and ended up #6 on the list for SFO-DEN and #4 for DEN-ATL. I was under the impression that waitlisted instruments appear ahead of all CPUs, but it seems like that wasn't the case here -- I find it hard to imagine that that many 1K/GS with higher fares (mine was W) would be applying instruments on these two segments.

On the return I did SDC to ATL-EWR-SFO and applied the RPU over the phone at the time of the change. I cleared immediately EWR-SFO and was #1 on the waitlist ATL-EWR, which is what I would typically expect.

Any idea what happened on the outbound?
I think the bigger news here is you cleared immediately on p.s. EWR-SFO. Congrats.

SFO-DEN likely had no one upgraded before the flight so there were plenty of GS ahead of you. Not surprised about DEN-ATL either.

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