Originally Posted by
NoLaGent
On the topic of the Professor, does anyone know the following:
I have a trip booked by a client for a meeting in Vegas (6 days to departure, ex SFO, y cabin with FF# in it) and looked at it this morning - it showed only a PC seat, and no "First Class Waitlisted". So I used the chat function and told them it seemed to have a glitch, to re-request and see if it would reset properly.
That did the trick, and it now shows F waitlisted. My question is does that also reset my place on the waitlist like re-ticketing does, or does the ticket date/fare still trump time requested? Any data?
Not a big deal really for this flight, but just curious, as this was a new one to me.
Originally Posted by
anteater
I believe it would have reset your “time of booking” as the agent likely added you to the waitlist at that specific time rather than the system having added you at booking. I don’t know if supervisors can still tinker with the WL and manually set TOB, but I believe it was rare and heavily frowned upon.
Similar holds true for one rebooks a flight (eg fare sale, moving to a different time slot) - place on WL is reset.
Let us know how it turns out! 🤙🏻🥃
Here's your update, and it's an interesting one...
At around 5.5 days out, I noticed that it went from 8 avail F (MAX9) out of 16, to 4 avail F, but no one ever claimed seats, and 8 remained open in the cabin. It stayed that way for 3 days, which I found odd. I had a feeling that it had gone down to a 738, but wasn't certain. As early as this am, it still showed as a M9, but only 4 seats were still available for sale. I started doing the date trick to check the WL a couple of days ago, and even though only being waitlisted since last week, I was at #2. That makes me think that ticketing date if not waitlisted still determines order, but impossible to really say.
After check-in about an hour ago, I was still in PC, and 8 seats were still unassigned in the F cabin.
Then about 20 minutes ago, I got an automated email from my client's agency that Alaska had upgraded my class of service. So I logged back into the trip on AS, saw this (picture below), and assigned myself row 2, as the seat map still showed 4 rows, but the a/c is a 738...
So whoever picks row 4 is probably going to have a surprise tomorrow, but yes, I know that even row 2 is not safe until the door closes...
