Originally Posted by
xliiopsr
Assuming such a coding exists and the upgrade system pays attention to it. Unless there's a res agent here who knows definitively, I wouldn't make that assumption. If you look at some older posts, there doesn't seem to be such a code and the people who were getting bumped to the head of the queue in IROPs looked to be due to being rebooked into full Y and not due to any special coding.
I would expect it be coded as a paid F w/o a seat assignment. No need to ever worry about the upgrade list as he is paid F. It is up to the GA to handle these pax prior to upgrades.
The examples of people being coded as full Y are different, Those were bumping displaced pax to the top of the list as kind of a nice gesture.
This was a screwup somewhere. Op might have been able to save the day by going to the GA, but from experience that can be pointless in cases like this as the GA has no time to even talk. The OP is owed the downgrade comp, and DL should also kick in some miles for screwing up.