But again I wonder if this exposes issues with the underlying status priorities that could be solved in another way. Like maybe 25K doesn’t really need an anytime clearance in Latitude?
For those booking in Flex (or lower) they already have a tiered upgrade clearance window that I think works well. Not saying it should be duplicated exactly for Latitude tickets, but maybe 25/35K should have to wait a bit to clear and maybe 50/75k too but a little earlier than 25/35k, leave the anytime upgrade for latitude fares for the SE.
I don’t know, there are probably factors that I’m missing…
I really appreciate that you're coming up with potential solutions.
I'm not sure how they could solve the SFO check-in situation. For me, they could add a SE line. But without going to the YYZ approach (and there is neither the volume or the space at SFO), there are always going to be "real" status people stuck in a line behind people who haven't earned it the "real" way.