Originally Posted by
canadiancow
That was an incorrect rumor. Check-in time mattered, which has a high correlation to whether you have another flight first. But there was no difference based on whether you had cleared the first segment.
Hm, interesting. So the upgrade priority back then was just status > fare class > check-in time?
(If check-in time was the tie breaker, presumaby request time was irreevant?)
I only had a few years of experience dealing with SWUs/SSWUs, but various data points did suggest that the system was more complex than that.