UA TATL -- Are seatmaps useful for gauging upgrade chances?
Originally Posted by
jsloan
UA is selling the seats. There’s not some big coterie of upgraders who are sneaking in front but will soon dissipate. If there are fewer Premier members, and fewer PlusPoints, in the future, it’ll mean finishing 5th on the upgrade list instead of 10th.
My anecdotal evidence says they're NOT selling all the J seats... 767-300 so 30 total J seats...16 open seats on my Thursday night flight, and 13 on the upgrade list. So assuming a couple of upgrades already, more than half are upgrades... Virtually all my recent flights there have been (based on seat selection availability) greater than 10 open seats 48 hours(ish) before departure... that all get filled. It's certainly not a glut of last minute full fare purchases.
The only routing I have upcoming that isn't is SFO-SIN
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Oct 11, 2022 at 4:25 pm
Reason: spun off as new threads on meaning of seat maps