Originally Posted by
Ausriver
Say if PEY or maybe even PEY & Y together was oversold by 10 seats. Then CX needs to select 10 pax to be moved to J. All of the pax with status in PEY has been moved to J already and they still need to select more pax. And normally pax travelling alone has priority.
I have been on flights with Y & PEY oversold by maybe 20 seats one times, you hear a lot of beeps at boarding gate and a lot of boarding passes facing down. Almost everyone queueing in front of me (status pax at the J boarding line) had a new boarding pass.... Maybe because another flight cancelled?
It's not totally rare to see flights so overbooked in Y that status pax in Y get double op-ups. Furthermore, I've seen situations on many regional flights where the entire PEY cabin (pax who originally booked there, no equipment swaps) gets upgraded to J. So it might very well be that OP was upgraded according to the priority, all the others had just gone before! I'm not an expert, but I've got the impression that HKG-ICN is not the most biz heavy route, so CX might oversell Y by a lot to maximise revenue.