Purchased economy & moved from Premium Plus seat assignment now P+ is purchasable
I wondered about them starting to sell Premium Economy in a couple of days. And then I had a hunch.
It is Friday night. They are loading schedule changes. Our SFO-PEK flight in April has been loaded with the new config and we were kicked out of row 20. So if you had an upcoming flight that was going to be affected, you should work on grabbing new seats now. I was moved to 30 on one flight and 31 on another. I think I might move us to 51, since it is a pair...
It looks like the seat map will let you buy up to it, like anything else, but it isn't fully loaded. Cash lists nothing. Miles has no availability, but while it lists 30,000 miles + $600 for a Polaris upgrade, it also lists an unavailable, unlabeled upgrade at 30,000 miles only, so that might be the PE upgrade.
I was really hoping we'd get the better seat for free. Oh well.