Originally Posted by RobOnLI

Emphasis on your word "routinely" because it has absolutely happened to me and recently. The non-status pax who wound up in F on the CPU-eligible domestic route were handed their BPs at the gate and found sitting in F while the CPU list was quite long and I was #2 for 3 seats. Would have easily gotten it. It has happened to me twice in the past year. Does that make it routine? No, not for the amount I fly. But it definitely makes it a statistic that is non-zero.

-RM