This is starting to look alot like last year.

My first 1999 elite upgrade experience:

Called this morning 12:05am to upgrade a flight for sunday. On hold for just under 4 mins. Flight is EWR-IAH-OMA. IAH-OMA upgraded, EWR-IAH has no upgrade seats, only revenue seats left. This is nothing new, the EWR-IAH flights have been the most difficult, for me, to upgrade. I batted 50% on this flight (sunday 4:45) last year 3 for 6, all 3 upgrades were space available.

All in all, it loks like very little has changed, except no paper and unlimited ELTCs.