It worked, sort of, I think....

So, Joey The Gold sits bleary-eyed at his computer at 4:45 AM, collecting data for his 7:20 AM flight. No happy EUA e-mail from the nice folks at CO **sigh**. The ITN site reads A0 F0 ** Double sigh**. The back of the bus for Joey The Gold again. Might as well get the best coach seat left after being vacated by those newly annoited to FC; Joey The Gold sleepily pulls his itinerary from CO's eTicket site and clicks on "View/Change" seat. The site "mistakenly" pulls up the FC seats (C'mon, bear with me here, it is 4:45 AM). Joey the Gold impishly clicks on his FC seat of choice, even though his itinerary still says seat 18C when it was first opened. No dice, Joey The Gold cannot select a FC seat and...ACK! Horror-of-Horrors! The devilish CO eTicket site has removed his 18C coach seat upon refreshing! Joey The Gold has NO SEAT on this flight now!

Off to the airport, frantically calling in the car from a cell phone in order to retrieve the "misplaced" coach seat. **Triple sigh**. The first agent was MUCH less than interested. "The seat map has been pulled. Airport check in only. Click". "Uhmmm, thank you". Yes, ALWAYS call back. The second agent, almost as dis-interested as the first, provided one additional essential piece of information. "Airport check-in only. You've been upgraded to FC. Click".

YIPEEE! Joey The Gold gets his cinnamon bun slathered with melting butter!

So, it seems that the seats dumped to F at 3.5 hours, EUA ran at 3.0 hours, but no seat assinments were given by EUA (by pretending to book a FC ticket at 4:45 AM, I saw all 11 unsold FC seats from yesterday were still available). Thus, it seems the EUA is modifying your "class of service" at 3.0 hours, but does not give you a seat until you check in at the airport, which is where I received my FC seat. In this way, if a full fare FC passenger buys a seat before you get there, you may lose it if you are the last in FC to check in, No?

Please discuss amongst yourselves.




[This message has been edited by Joey (edited 03-05-2002).]