Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I thought the whole point of only doing free elite upgrades at the gate was to take account of the fact that if two (paid or upgraded) FC passengers were traveling together, they would be seated together so that one more upgrade for someone else could be confirmed.
That would make sense but is apparently not what they're doing.
Similarly, a family of 3 in Y could take one (half) row, but they're still limiting to 60% (not even 2/3 on a 3-3 configuration). I don't know why. Flights are leaving with entire rows empty.