Originally Posted by
Allan38103
To the Original Poster (and many of you who have responded), have you read all the policies and regulations regarding upgrades? Do you know exactly what happened in this case?
no?
neither do I.
Why would the OP or I read policies and regulations regarding upgrades for this thread?
Originally Posted by
coxm
I’ve flown Alaskan a few times, mostly short west coast hops out of SFO, plus a prior tip to BOS and DCA round trip. For this jaunt, I flew paid first class. Trip out was uneventful. Service was fine. Return trip, yesterday was BOS>SEA>SFO on the 11am BOS>SEA flight. I was sitting Row 1 (again a paid seat, not an upgrade). Gate Agent boards in th middle of boarding and approaches a passenger in Row 2, informing him that he was being involuntarily downgraded to economy (and the back of the plane as there were no other seats on the plane). Passenger asked why, and the answer was so an Alaskan pilot who was deadheading back to Seattle could have the seat. Passenger asked why they were chosen for the downgrade since they were on a paid first class ticket, and the response was “because you were the last to check in”. The passenger asked a few more questions, but did accept his fate, because there wasn’t much else he could do.