Originally Posted by
18sas
This is basically what I think. I'm not sure they intended for this to be a wholesale overhaul of the upgrade order, but were thinking they were clarifying something, and instead muddied the waters further.
I think the wording of the chart is unambiguous. It used to say fare class, not it says cabin, they are different things.
The ambiguity is created by the text not in the chart which keeps the fare class language.
So, my best
guess (and I do mean guess): Someone was paying attention when compiling the chart, as someone paying attention is how the language changed. The portion that says fare class could have been missed when they were making the change to the chart.
On the other hand doing away with fare class as a factor is a major change, difficult to imagine that they wanted to do that. Keeping fare class as a factor encourages people to pay higher fares.
We may have to wait until January 2-24 to find out.