Originally Posted by
GYEWorldTraveler
Looking at UA PVG-EWR this Thursday 10/31 and Polaris is showing it’s booked to 35 (+17 blocked) with the 60 seat cabin and Premium Plus is showing full but UA still willing to sell more seats. Is this indicative that Premium Plus is severely oversold and they plan to op-up a bunch of passengers to Polaris?
It just seems odd that PZ/PN wouldn’t be available with cabin booked so lightly - especially if they are planning to op-up a number of passengers.
Yes, PE is over by 17 and at current count 17 people confirmed in PE will end up flying in J (either from clearing an instrument or op-ups). I now see PE zeroed out though: J5 C4 Z0 .. O0 .. Y9 X9.
The inventory algorithm does not account for
why the cabin is 55/60, it just counts 5 remaining seats and sets inventory to J5 C4 Z0. And in this case it makes sense anyway.. you wouldn't want someone from Y using a GPU to take one of the five remaining premium seats. Sometimes a human from UA will come in and manually force supported upgrades from the overbooked cabin.