Originally Posted by 1K-SFO
I have an upcoming SFO-ATL (still about a week out) that I've been ticketed on for about a month, with a CR1 upgrade waitlisted. It's an A319 and heavily carries paid F/C traffic inbound from Asia. It's now showing F3.
This continues to be the hardest domestic upgrade in the system for me -- worse than elite-heavy hub-to-hub SFO-ORD and SFO-IAD.
This has been posted on before, but a quick search of "SFO IAD upgrade" didn't yield anything.
Have others had similar experiences?
Last Spring... way back when I was 1K and not in my current diminished position, I booked two seats ATL-SFO-ATL for travel late summer.
I requested an upgrade using CR-1s. I was waitlisted. First was wide open. All eight seats were available. Neither of my upgrades cleared at time-of-purchase, though, by flight time, both did.
I agree with you. I understand holding back some inventory, but whoever heard of an upgrade failing when the desired cabin is totally unsold?