Originally Posted by J.Edward
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3. What implications does it have for me?
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.
This is a very informative reply. Thank you.
This brings up another issue, however. If you are placed on a "waitlist," there doesn't seem to be much chance of eventually clearing it. What would make CO management make more BF seats available? If someone with a paid BF seat cancelled their reservation? This would probably not open that seat for a waitlist customer because, as you said, there are sometimes empty BF seats. It would seem that the only way to move from the waitlist to a confirmed seat is if someone with an mileage upgraded confirmed reservation cancels. This doesn't seem very likely.
With the above reasoning, what percentage of people who are waitlisted ever actually get an upgrade?
Thanks in advance.