Bringing this thread to the top, just to reiterate that the questions above have still not been answered.

Also, about a month into the EUA debacle (this year's October suprise) I and others have personally witnessed spouses and business associates being seperated against their express wishes by the EUA. It almost caused a riot on an EWR-LAS flight on 11/12 (not me so stop snikering). A Platinum elite was booked by his company travel agent, his wife (a Silver elite) by hers. They specifically intended to get seats together in the back of the plane. He was EUA'd (a system he had NEVER heard of). The flight was oversold. He (a lawyer) was quite upset. He took out his "2000 pocket elite guide" from the
Presidents club and asked the gate agent where it said anything about EUA.

Even those of you who support the stupid EUA system surely must agree it should be modified so that it must be requested at ticketing to be invoked. You can still get on the stupid, unfair automatic upgrade list anytime you wish, but by NOT requesting it, you could ensure that you DON'T get one when you don't want.

I guess it was more important for Continental to shove this half a$$ed plan down our throats than to think it out.

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