Kind of an interesting case with the upgrades today. My wife and I are travelling on Sunday, but on separate PNRs. Out of interests sake, I did a minimum bid on my ticket, and minimum +$5 on hers.

At the 50 hours out from departure mark, I got an email that has a new upgraded ticket for my wife's flight. Not the usual email saying "You've been upgraded", just a standard Ethiopian email with itinerary & receipt as you get after making a normal booking/modification. So definitely appears that her upgrade cleared, though not the usual email saying so.

At T-47, after not getting the usual email showing her upgrade was accepted, and not seeing anything for mine, I decided to check on my reservation. Strangely my reservation now shows two bookings for the same flight under the PNR (one in economy, the other in business). Never received any sort of email notification.

Credit card charges are pending for both upgrades (which is a good sign). I'm not really concerned, and even if one or both upgrades don't actually clear, I won't be disappointed (flight is from LLW-ADD). Though if my booking remains like this I can imagine it will be a bit of a headache checking in at LLW.

Just thought this experience was interesting as so far it has gone against the norm from what we've come to expect.

We'll see how this shakes out over the next 40ish hours... Someone at central reservations might have jumped into their weekend celebrations a wee bit early

UPDATE: I got the official email (16 hours prior), and my reservation appears to have been fixed (no duplicates).