Originally Posted by chococat
If I paid $1000+ for my F seat or earned my upgrade with 50,000+ BIS miles and then I see some guy upgraded for free, there's not going to be a lot of goodwill on my part towards the airline. If someone gets a last second upgrade legitimately, there is always some paper shuffling and the GA either comes on board or passes a new boarding pass to the FA, who escorts the passenger up front, so it would be pretty obvious if someone were getting the undocumented upgrade. And the FA would probably be fired.
I think its pretty likely that one could bribe their way up front on a non-US carrier though.
Why not go in to a restaurant and sit down at an empty table and ask them to bring you dinner for free since the table is empty and the food will go bad anyways?
Bad news for you
I have seen attractive folks flirt male and female and get it without a bribe
Just by being hot and friendly.For that matter I have seen Honeymooners bumped up, airline employees,and a number of other kinda sorta not so worthy folks with less then great reasons get to the front cabin.
On award ,buddy passes and consodlidator tickets.
I have even seen folks who were lower on the waiting list bump me off the list with lower elite preference over some unusual technicality.Like there were two seats and I was single so they gave it to the couple together
Once a waitlist gets in the hands of humans anything can happen.
While it is harder for the above to happen these days .It still can and does
I don't sweat it anymore if you are well connected good at flirting and charming more power to you.I take care of my own business and don't mind the creative or gifted.As long as they don't mess me up to bad
It is not always a fair world
Have no complaints thanks to our bright community and its sharing of information.
I have traveled for the most part brilliantly all over the world
And I enjoy the back of the cabin too sometimes where I sometimes meet the most interesting folks of all!