Originally Posted by Galla47
Hey,
Acutally, the answer to your question is yes!
You can REQUEST an upgrade, but you might not get anywhere with it. I got lucky a couple times and found a gate agent who read the rules and determined that Delta GMs could get upgraded. I IMMEDIATLEY had him upgrade me on several NW segments. (which he did)
Every other NW agent read the rules and told me that it wouldn't work.
One funny thing, though, is that I had trouble getting the NW upgraded segments to post. In almost every situation, I had to fax the boarding pass to Delta. I don't know what the agent had to do, but it must have been some sort of override).
On July 12, I was to fly SDF/IAH/DFW on CO Express, but was delayed out of SDF due to late arriving equipment so I would miss the IAH/DFW segment. The agent at SDF rescheduled me on next IAH/DFW CO flight which was a 737 with 10 FC seats. I asked if I could get upgraded since I was Delta GM and she said of course, Delta is a code share partner so you are entitiled to be upgraded! I asked her if that was standard procedure to upgrade Delta Elites and she said that had been the case for quite some time. Unfortunately, all seats were already assigned but she put me on the waiting list, in case someone didn't show. But when I arrived in IAH, I checked with the agent, who printed me a FC boarding pass! By the way, I think CO's FC product is better due to newer plusher seats where you can snack on real PEANUTS
