>>>>I've got my first flight as a NW Gold on Friday.

Me too. So when EUA did not go through by 6am today I figured my PNR was defective somehow. So I called the Gold line and the agent suggested I wait till tomorrow morning (Wednesday) and then call back if it still hadn't called through.

I got impatient (after reading the FT threads about early Silver/Gold transitioned PNR's not running, and one Plat PNR being passed over completely) so I called back around noon saying that I was concerned that my record was getting ignored for some systemic reason.

After being put on hold for a few minutes, the agent told me that she had upgraded me for this Friday (there was plenty of R-bucket space on the MSN-SFO flights) and that it was probably not a problem with my transitioned records, but instead that there have been problems since New Years with EUA.

She said the return should probably go automatically, and my other 11 records booked as a Silver for travel as Gold in 2005 should probably be o.k., and I thanked her and told her I'd keep checking.

Browsing through upcoming itineraries today I also noticed, in passing (and I check fairly often), that several seat assignments on itineraries within the next two months or so had popped out and were showing as N/A. I got all but one of the 5F seats back, but in one case my previous 5F was gone, and I had to settle for an exit row. Thank Gawd my row 10 seats on the A330 to London in March were still there.