Originally Posted by
econometrics
It's speculative that this could or would happen, but it is not supposed to.
However, I had a C alert EF email on 13 Oct for my waitlisted SWU on the 14th from LHR-DFW. I got the email about 2 hours after EF sent it. At that point, I called AA to see if I had cleared and they said I had not, and the C space was gone.
Maybe that was just a phantom C-alert from EF, or a glitch in the system. Who knows. I did end up getting the SWU cleared, however, about 8 hours later.
My guess is it was the C space opening up, then AA clearing people off the list into it. I got the EF notice that C opened up on my LAX-AKL, and by the time I looked maybe an hour after alert, I was already upgraded and EF showed C0. And that was a month before the flight (which is tomorrow!)