<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dspringer28:
They also might be holding them for the chance of selling them at the last min. I was on a flight yesterday with 14 FC seats open at the 72hr window and nothing happend, at the gate 71hrs later they cleared me and everyone on the list and the plane still went out with 3 empty FC seats.
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Does this mean that you were on the "prioritized by fare paid" list instead of the "prioritized by status" list, and you were lucky there weren't more Y fares trying to upgrade?