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Old Apr 2, 2022 | 10:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Roger Lococco
The potential upgrade sales may delay people coming off the waitlist and in some cases will replace potential upgrades using instruments.
On any flight for which there's an upgrade list, the sale of an upgrade will by definition displace a waitlisted pax who otherwise would have been upgraded. In other words, pretty much 100% of the time UA is selling the upgrade out from under a waitlisted elite.
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