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Oct 29, 2005 | 8:31 am

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Originally Posted by J.Edward

3. What implications does it have for me?[indent]Should you want to move up to BF and be willing to pay cash and miles and OnePass be unable to confirm your upgrade you'll be placed on a waitlist. The waitlist will remain open until 72-hours before the flight at which time it will be shutdown (with you on it) even if there are open seats. When the waitlist shuts down, the upgrade aint gonna happen - even if it means BF flies with empty seats.

I find this post VERY frustrating. Perhaps we have become so Jaded on FT that we forget there are POSITIVE outcomes sometimes. The poster gave us two possibilities:
1) "onePass will be unable to confirm your upgrade"
2) "and you will be placed on the waitlist"

What ever happened to this option (the one I always seem to get)
3) OnePass CAN confirm your upgrade at time of booking...