Originally Posted by Qwkynuf

January was tough for upgrades for me last year, I think due to the overlap where DMs who didn't requalify not falling out of status until 1/31.

That said, had my last trip of the calendar year yesterday (finally hitting my MQDs on the last segment), and I did pretty well for the year.

As a DM for the full year, with a Reserve card:

Out of 121 eligible segments I was upgraded 103 times, or 85.124% of the time.

67 of the upgrades were either at the 5 day window or at least > 24 hours prior to departure
22 were comp upgrades at the gate
14 were RUCs (out of 17 tries)
6 of the RUCs cleared immediately, 8 cleared at the gate

Of the times that the upgrade went to the gate, UG list position not using RUC:
#1 16 times
#2 4 times
#3 2 times

When using an RUC
#1 5 times
#2 3 times

When I didn't clear
Not using RUC:
#1 6 times
#2 3 times
#3 4 times
#4 4 times
#5 1 time

Using RUC:
#1 2 times
#3 1 time

Was pulled up from the back after boarding 3 times (Battlefield upgrade).

Longest upgrade list was 70, EWR-ATL. Shortest was 3, SEA-PDX.
Largest number of available seats at the gate was 5 (twice), the smallest number was 0 (11 times, though I actually got the upgrade 2 of those times)

Most common routes:
PDX-SLC 10 times
SLC-PDX 10 times
SEA-PDX 9 times
PDX-SEA 9 times
PDX-ATL 6 times
ATL-PDX 6 times

I hadn't noticed the symmetry of that before. At first glance it would appear to be a bunch of round trips, but almost none of them are. It's more of an artifact of having to connect through a hub to go almost anywhere.

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