<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gunn:
Hrm,
So if I'm a lowly silver, I don't get confirmed upgrades until 24 hours before departure. According to the CO website, I think I need to order a special meal "24 hours before departure". This sounds like I must order it ">24 hours before departure."
So I can't call ~24 hours the niht
If this is true, will ordering a special meal preclude me from being automatically upgraded? Or, if the auto-upgrade me will they just load on a special meal?
Or, can I just call exactly 24hrs in advance, find out if i've been upgraded, and then request a meal then?
I guess the best solutions would be to either fly enough to qualify for gold or just buy an F ticket 
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I used to order special meals (seafood) and I found that when I was upgraded they would track me down with the economy meal rather than serve me the FC variant of the special meal (as a silver). It seems to work better for golds (my wife) and platinums (my boss)