Originally Posted by
Jeremy3292
Thank you for this explanation as I think this is a plausible scenario. I was one of the first few to board in the Main 1 group; FO don't get SKY status. I have seen numerous times before where folks scan their boarding pass and out pops a new seating assignment, it just has never happened to me until last week. There was only a few FC and C+ available for upgrades at the gate.
It was an MD88 so 10D the first aisle C+ seat (a great seat tbh).
However, I would think the C+ ticket would have popped out for people in the SKY boarding zone as they would presumably have been ahead of me on the upgrade list?
Check-in cutoff time is T-30. It's possible the person in that seat never checked-in for the flight and if all the Gold's and higher who hadn't been upgraded boarded prior to T-30 the seat would not have been available at that point. The other possibility is that they were a no-show (possibly connecting from another flight and skipping a segment). These are usually cleared out at around T-15 (although I would think Main 1 boarding would normally begin before T-15).
Last edited by xliioper; Nov 19, 2019 at 10:28 am