Yep, I’m with Adam also, but I don’t think there was any discussion of whether anyone was with him
I suppose the answer is that it appears the website is no longer unreliable but not enough datapoints to confirm that yet to the degree needed to update the wiki.
For reasons noted, I’m not really in position to test as it gets more complicated from a refund perspective if I’m splitting payments and the initial fare was purchased as non refundable. Guess I’ll just watch and wait. Just seemed a bit odd to me that the recent datapoints of the website working was around the same time R got mostly zeroed out. Was simply curious if perhaps AC has abandoned using available R space as quasi-publicly available through GDS/EF as the way that they determine upgrade space. Beyond the old “sometimes an upgrade will clear when R0” to something more like “R will always show 0 and the AC site is how you can determine if your flexible fare will instantly upgrade”.
I don’t think the latter is yet provably true, but wanted to see if datapoints suggest that it is becoming more likely to be true.
My sample size of 1 (2 if you include companion fare), booked in Latitude. R=0. Upgrades cleared after a few days. So not sure if it was a time/weekly auto sweep or if there was manual intervention. J=9 on EF. So I would not say its more likely to be true, probably a factor of how many J seats remain at the time of eupg request and whatever algorithm they use to forecast seats that will be sold. I booked 4 months before departure.