In May, my girlfriend and I are flying SEA-TPE (Taipei, Taiwan) in Premium Select. However, we have separate bookings because while we are traveling outbound together, we are returning separately (and in fact I am returning on another airline, for reasons not important to get into here). So I have a one-way ticket and she has a round-trip ticket, but to be clear we are on the same flight from SEA-TPE and I selected adjacent seats in the PS cabin. Both tickets were booked on Delta,com, all flights are Delta tickets on Delta metal with Delta flight numbers, and both are in fare class G. I am Platinum Medallion, my girlfriend is a nonstatus Skymiles member.

Here is the interesting thing: if you call up her itinerary and bring up the seat map, there is an upgrade offer to Delta One. However when I call up my itinerary, there is no upgrade offer . . .all the Delta One seats have the "X". I have attached screenshots of the seat maps (the one on the left is the seat map you see for her, the one on the right is the o ne you see for me; as you can see we are currently in PS seats 20H ["RC"] and 20J ["AK"]).

The upgrade offer is really no bargain ($2550), so I am not going to bite. But what concerns me is that as the flight date approaches, there is always a chance that the upgrade offer could change and become more palatable.

Why is she getting an offer to upgrade to D1 and I am not?


So why is my girlfriend getting this upgrade offer and I am not?