Originally Posted by LemonThrower
I was op. upgraded once on airtran to biz class, but I was dressed nice than post pax. not sure if that counts, but yeah it was the agent at the gate who did it for me.
Congrats on being to moved to J. I haven't received an op-up for several years but... hope springs eternal.
However, unless you tipped the gate agent to get your new seating assignment, it was just a plain ol' operational upgrade and not really relevant to the OP.