Originally Posted by Just Passing Thru
Absolutely. ^
By doing that, you might be helping a standby pax who needs to get on, or perhaps clearing a seat in F so that someone else can upgrade. Help out your fellow travelers and tell the airline you won't be needing your seat.
This doesn't help anybody -- it just expedites it. Once you don't board at the last final boarding call, if you're not on the plane, they'll accommodate a standby or process another upgrade. It's not like if you checked in and don't show up, that seat's gonna fly empty. While I agree that it's a courtesy to let them know you're not flying, the net outcome in the end is the same.
Originally Posted by ijgordon
I've actually gotten on the plane, had my drink in FC, and then heard that we were being delayed by X hours for Y reason. I got off the plane, went to the customer service counter and was issued a refund on the spot. Don't know if they ever gave someone else the battlefield upgrade...
Last time I was pulled off a plane from F (due to a delay, I was rerouted), at the time of rebooking I was sure to inform the redcoat that I had freed up an F seat, so he would battlefield someone else.
Since this isn't a usual circumstance, I could see how an agent may forget to process battlefield upgrades at that time, so I figured the reminder wouldn't hurt.