Originally Posted by
DYKWIA
Just keep trying. Then try at the airport or onboard.
Exactly! My experience is that if there are F seats for sale when you are at check in, ask for the upgrade and you will be given your new BP at the gate. Also tell the attendants at the lounge desk that you have asked for the upgrade, I have been called aside by them when leaving the lounge and given my new BP. By this time it is unlikely (but never impossible) that you will get a ‘regular’ upgrade. Alerts and auto upgrade seem to be cancelled at T-48 hours so you rely on the ‘seats available’ process.