Originally Posted by rcs85551
You are talking about "glitches", when it fact, those changes reflect what married segment availability combined with journey control enforcement is all about.
It is up to Delta to decide whether they want to remove the married segment availability from the respective award / upgrade classes... but my feeling tells me it won't happen.
For Delta's sake, I sure hope you are wrong.
It's one thing for Journey Control to apply to paid fare classes in order to manage seat inventory/revenue between city pairs, but quite another for it to ever apply to upgrades....which are supposed to be based on a person's elite status and perhaps even their fare class.......but NOT a person's routing.
IOWs, there's no way in hell that a FO not on a full Y fare, that is travelling on a simple YYY-ZZZ itinerary should ever be cleared when their upgrade window opens...when there are any PMs or GMs on a XXX-YYY-ZZZ connecting itinerary that are booked on the same YYY-ZZZ flight who have not been cleared.
Yet that's apparently what could actually start to happen on a regular basis.....based on what you posted regarding upgrade availability on PDX-ATL-MCO.....and already has happened at least once....if not more.
If this were to ever happen on a regular basis as a matter of policy, then PM status will have become meaningless and so does the last reason for any PM that has to connect on a regular basis to remain loyal to Delta.
Do you really think that many current GMs/PMs will remain loyal to Delta if an FO on a T class fare ever gets upgraded before them solely because the FO is on a non-stop flight while the PM/GM is connecting?
A.J.