Originally Posted by
canforce
I am maybe a bit slow to this discussion. If you are on a cash Latitude fare should you expect your upgrade to clear right away? We paid cash for the tickets but our Frankfurt to Toronto (AC 841 on 12 December) is showing as waitlisted. Is there a way for me to fix this? Someone was kind to check into it in the past for me and indicated that it was R0 for the flight.
I think 'expect' is way too strong. Sometimes, even often on certain routes, cash latitude will clear when R0. Other times it seems to reliably not clear if it's R0. I book these tickets a lot and often get clearance without R space on TATL routes, but usually there is a bit of P space or, at least, a good number of seats in the other J fare classes.
That particular flight is P9 so I'm a bit surprised it didn't clear with a cash latitude (that's a route I often fly). (How many of you are there -- you said 'we'? My experience is only as a solo traveller. Am also SE which may make some minor difference.)
You could try removing the upgrade request and then reapplying it.