Originally Posted by platbrownguy

Okay, fair, but all that means is that if you choose to burn a GUC on a Y ticket, you've spent it to get the premium economy seat--and then maybe within 24 hours you get the J upgrade, maybe you don't, but regardless, you're still out the GUC! Not a great consolation prize, and I can't imagine most folks will actually want to burn their GUCs that way.



I don't think that's quite right -- I think the last-seat availability applies only when you burn a GUC on "first class" or premium economy -- not on actual Delta One. So it's another incentive to burn GUCs in a less-than-optimal way.