I understand what you're saying, but, just like everyone who expects UA to continue a waitlisting program that is clearly dead as soon as somebody remembers to update the website, you're missing a fundamental point. There is no chart. Therefore, even if you were booked on a through fare, there's no way to know that it wouldn't have been priced differently if I space had been available all the way through. We just don't know -- they don't tell us what the inputs to the pricing algorithm are. UA's switch to a fully dynamic pricing model for awards makes the entire concept of waitlisting meaningless.

Waitlisting, whether of a mixed-cabin itinerary or the Plan B variety, only makes sense in a world where you can look at a chart and find out what a saver award should cost. We're no longer in that world, and waitlisting, as a concept, no longer makes sense.