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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 8:39 pm
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alect
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Originally Posted by smilee
I agree 11 months out does help somewhat. I think you were very lucky though to find 3 upgradeable seats not only to Europe but back! Wow.

Also I tend to think that it may be easier to find three business award seats (no eqm) then to try to get the three upgradeable seats. Yes / No?
I'm not sure I was lucky - as I tracked the preceding dates, as flights become available in the GDS, both 134 and 136 had 3 or 5 Us available. Equally when I was making LAX-DFW/MIA-EZE award reservations, as flighs were loaded most had 7 Us on eahc flight.
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