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Old Jan 11, 2022 | 10:56 am
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Originally Posted by tomtaylor23
When traveling for personal reasons, I normally have my wife as a companion who does not have elite status. I’ve noticed this year in particular that I’ve been bumped. For example, there was a flight last week from ATL-ORD and there were 3 open FC seats T-24. Myself and the one companion were 1st and 2nd. I wake up the following morning and I see there is a single seat left and the names below between 3 to 5 had disappeared. I’m under the assumption here that they were upgraded before me because a single upgrade space was released overnight at two different times, so I was skipped due to having a companion. Does anyone know if this is true? Have you experienced something like this before? Anything I can do so I can upgrade myself and then my companion later if the upgrade space is available? It’s really frustrating that I get’s skipped in this situation, but I guess WFBF is something I should start to consider when with a companion.

I’m also assuming this is happening to me during the 5 day window, where they release single spaces over time.
This could also be explained by SDCs or the use of RUCs (or GUCs) to confirm upgrades.
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