Originally Posted by
Duke787
Paid F on standby would have priority over a comp upgrade due to underlying fare class but as noted above if the GA doesn’t process things in the right order (clear standby before clearing upgrades) it can mess things up
by "right order" do you mean "the order specified by policy" or "the order needed to get this to work"?
in general, if you're in paid F, and you want to get onto an earlier flight that doesn't have an available F seat, the way to go is to CONFIRM into Y, then you will be ahead of everyone on the standby list for F if something opens up.
if there is already an open F seat, there is no need to standby, you can SDC directly into that seat.