Originally Posted by
sturges
GTR fares are not eligible for immediate upgrade to premium class (row 6-10 on Boeing) for Gold.
Details are here:
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...rship-benefits
The U availability is a separate issue too:
Since the VX acquisition, they seem to be withholding U availability because of the Airbus with 8F seats being in the fleet now. Many times, I've seen an F cabin "sold out" only to have 8 people upgraded at the gate. They are probably trying to avoid an oversold F cabin in case an airbus gets swapped in.
Interesting that they're doing it across the board. I run that SEA>DEN route a lot (so much so that I can secure gold on AS even though almost (90%+) all of my other domestic revenue goes to DL and Mint now), and there has never been an Airbus at C39 (AS's only gate at the airport, at least since they killed the DEN>LAX route). Frankly, it makes me much less likely to fly them at all, save for the fact that there's not a lot of competition in the SEA>DEN space.