An empty seat means "space available."

Period.

They always have enough meals in F. I'm not sure how one could say that there wasn't space available or how they weren't prepared for someone to be sitting in that seat. The flight was at 1:30 PM CST and I was on the wait list for first since 7 AM. The gate agent said first was checked in full. Of course someone may not have showed up, but then the gate agent should've upgraded the first person on the waitlist.

Like I said in the original post, a flight in coach isn't a big deal. However, when I purchase a ticket well in advance and when I get on the wait list well in advance, I expect that, since I'm Plat, I will get the seat (or another Plat who got on the waitlist earlier would).

But I mainly posted this to see how many people would jump in to defend CO, even when they OBVIOUSLY screwed up. And I was not disappointed.

WMH

[This message has been edited by WeeMileHoar (edited 12-06-2001).]