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Jan 18, 2021 | 6:07 pm

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Originally Posted by Zorak

I haven't had a BE ticket recently, but a couple times in 2020 I got the seat selection offer email at T-5d*. But per Twitter rep at the time this is purely a seat selection fee, it does not convert the BE ticket to a main cabin so still ineligible for upgrades etc. The fee does count towards MQDs and RDMs though, lol.

*I see that I posted about it upthread and said T-66h, but in looking at the saved email it actually was 5 days minus 6 hours (and bad math on the 66)

I have a DL flight in 5 days and the system doesn't give me an option to pay for seats now in BE and in my past experience it was closer to 72 hrs.

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