Within the last year, I was booked in BF on a Transpacific 3-class 777. I had an unremarkable aisle seat in the back J cabin...I think row 9 or 10.

Door closes, and the seat next to me is empty. I’m thinking “no way” as I love nothing more than emptiness next to me in the coffin configuration.

Even though I was upgraded months before the flight, I’m still always curious, so I knew of the 20-person deep waitlist for BF. Only the bottom 10 or so appeared on the standby and GF list—non-revs. Checked again as doors were closing and saw GF filled up with paying passengers, all standbys got on, yet at least several, as many as 10 paying customers were overlooked for the upgrade on this 13-hour flight.

I was happy, but if I’d died at #1 , I’d really have been P’d.