Originally Posted by
Chapel Hill Guy
Last month three of us flew IAD-FRA on identical S fares. I used OLCI for all of us:
Me 1K: No upgrade offered.
Son no status: No upgrade offered.
Wife 3P (gifted): Upgrade offered.
Weird IMHO.
That
is weird. Maybe they figure offering a buy-up to a 3P is akin to giving a little taste of the product to someone who might buy it for real in the future. Or maybe it's completely random.