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Old Jun 23, 2025 | 8:54 am
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Originally Posted by Duke777
Friend (Gold) is flying IAD-SFO and was in the PP section since booking months ago. Day of and now aircraft shows all PP are blocked and friend got punted to regular economy. Haven’t seen this happen before. Will these open back up or what?
Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
Its back !!!! Yes this is a known problem when the actual frame intent for the flight is assigned, 2-3 days in advance. When the frame is assigned some error occurs and the system thinks this a PremPlus sold flight.
Bummer. I have been relying on this trick for a lot of SFO-IAD flights recently. Especially since SFO-DCA first/upgrades are almost never reasonably priced, and +P will only clear on that route in my wildest dreams.
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