Originally Posted by SFOtoORD
..It may be baked enough into the revenue sharing agreement with UA that it does not cause a financial hit to LH to do the upgrade.
I reckon that has to be true - printed SWUs only get up-ed when no M&L status
member opts to waste a gazillion miles (or even cash) on an upgrade.
It basically saves LH from handing out any op-ups and comes at a price of a
premium class meal. Which would have gone unused without the upgrade anyway.
The more constant load might hence come at no food cost whatsoever and might
give LH a chance to sell a few more Y seats to 1K and their sponsored ones
and maybe quite a few Z fares for those in the vane hope of getting an F
seat from which they would be positively barred on UA.