Originally Posted by
coolcoil
Were you and your companion on the same PNR? If that was the case, and they only needed to downgrade one person then I'm not surprised they chose not to split up a pair traveling on one reservation.
There were two PNR’s, one for myself and passenger 2 which has no status and used stickers. A separate one for passenger 3, also has no status, on the paid upfare.
It’s worth noting that the seat map at the time I upfared my third friend, showed 5 other empty seats in J (earlier last week).