Good grief! ETOPS01, you obviously didn’t READ the original post very carefully, and your response is simply WAY over the top. Eloquent, fine, but exegetically baseless. WHERE do you get this stuff?! Are you looking for an excuse to blow effusive verbiage about issues you have with apparently “presumptive” silver elites. What you just blew all over this thread simply has more to do with YOU then with the original POSTER/POST--oops, now I'm assuming too much, too. Let’s refocus and REREAD.

The concrete ISSUE (READING from the original post) is whether the upgrade system failed. This is a hot issue. He is also INQUIRING (note he said “I don’t get it,” and “figured” several times) as to WHY he might have missed the upgrade with respect to crew policy, and what OTHER EXPERIENCES have been in similar situations. Why you couldn’t constructively comment with respect to his inquiry, is beyond me. (Thank you, Boomer for a constructive response).

Rather than respond to some concrete discourse, you go after the AUTHOR and make some rather presumptive and DENIGRATIVE assumptions. So you PRESUME that traveling to FLORIDA, on a T fare, in advance means WHAT? That you have any less prerogative than others? So you make a smart a$$ statement about him being the Southwest type traveler--and therefore somehow less of a traveler. You obviously are not getting this from the original post. C’mon. For all you know he’s a silver who’s flown a heck of a lot of segments and at least 25k and thinks the system or crew policy took away a perceived benefit on this ONE experience. Why you presume so much otherwise...who knows? Take it to a therapist.

Sure the poster thinks that he’s important but NOT overly so. He’s not saying that because he’s SILVER that therefore he has a right to the upgrade over others (as you presume) but is saying this BECAUSE he thought given his priority AFTER gold/plats that he wasn’t give his OPPORTUNITY as a silver and only as a silver (READ his comment about after the upgrade window for plat/golds). He simply doesn’t understand the crew policy or “open seats” and in fact he MIGHT be correct in his assumption.

Perhaps give him grief about being “steamed” such that it’s not necessarily that important or necessarily the mishap as he perceives, but spare us the subjective dreck.

Would anyone like to respond to the original post (and, unfortunately, to mine).

I think the telling point is whether there were F or A seats, open? Do you know, Hoboken? Crew policy, has been explained well, and were the crew in uniform? (Probably).

[This message has been edited by JeffLewis2 (edited 07-26-2001).]