Originally Posted by SlickRick
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.
There are four windows. At about 90 days out the seats open up for platinums. At 60 days they open for gold. At about 30 days they open foe Silver, if you have no status then the window opens at about 14 days. If you are already within your window, often you can call and find flights with the seats avialable. They simply are capacity controlled to haow many free ones they give out. Just like, AA, DL, UA and the other airlines.