Originally Posted by
DJ_Iceman
I think it's relevant because it takes away any ambiguity that had arisen due to the varying language in different places on the website. The OP was mad because there is a place where it makes it sound like people in PP should get upgraded to Polaris ahead of anyone in Y. There's been a lot of discussion about how that's not true in practice, but I was just pointing out that it didn't even matter in this case.
Upgrading from Y to O(RN) isn't supposed to change priority because ultimately your basis for request to J(PZ/PN) is still Y. In reality, sometimes — actually, with regularity — the RN upgrade does shuffle priority, but that's a bug.
So the clearance into PremiumPlus is irrelevant for theoretical purposes.
Think a little further about this: pax 1 on, say, V fare requests upgrade with pluspoints to J(PZ) only, not wanting to spend the instrument on upgrade to O(RN) ; pax 2 with same status as pax 1 and on W fare requests upgrade to J(PZ) and to O(RN). In the event pax 2 clears to O, there's no justification for moving pax 2 ahead of pax 1 for the J upgrade.