Originally Posted by thepla
I'm wondering the same thing. I'm flying MKE->CLT on Monday and was not upgraded on either flight. I acted like I was buying a first class ticket and ony 1ABCD were taken from MKE-->DTW and there was only a few seats taken from DTW-->CLT.
On the way home on Wed I only got upgraded on my CLT-->DTW leg and I was the only person in first. Maybe the computers have less seats in "R" than before, this is not a situation where there are more elites because of end of year new elites and some elites leaving but still active until Feb.
Yeah now that is surprising, as you noted CLT is not a heavy NW elite stronghold (which coincidentally make being any elite tier fantastic here). From all of the reports as of late, I am more convinced that as one of our esteemed posters suggested in another thread that there is a glitch going on with the computers. Has any FT'er with close ties to NW taken that up with NW?