Originally Posted by
jsloan
To the contrary — if it weren’t for the P9 inventory, I’d think your chances weren’t good at all. Most business class tickets are sold within about three weeks of departure.
Just circling back, with so many empty J seats, I decided to just monitor it (even when the 18th MNL-SFO had PZ>0, surprisingly I never saw the 19th on get PZ>0). Anyways, I actually left on my trip, and I went from 2 to 4 on the list with only 12 seats remaining but I finally got cleared 64hrs out. I checked afterwards and it was still PZ1. I was starting to think about switching to the MNL-SFO flight but luckily it worked out. I've never started an intl trip without both legs cleared. I don't think I want to make a habit of it.
Hopefully this was a fluke for TPE-SFO and the route isnt becoming more difficult to upgrade early on.