<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by H53Epilot:
The only thing I can surmise is that CO wants folks to use their miles to upgrade. Of course this is great for non elites, but it sucks for elites. We'll see. </font>
Yes and no. After 1/1/03, non-elites won't be able to use miles to upgrade B, V, Q, or T fares at all. Hub to hub flights like IAH-EWR are notoriously hard to get an EUA upgrade on. A quick search of the forum will show you other topics like yours. But make no mistake, someone at CO must be able to show that they can get more revenue out of F seats by holding them back from EUA. There must be some kind of revenue advantage by getting folks to burn miles for an upgrade....