Originally Posted by GimmeLegRoom

Ditto - worked for me. I was on paid B fare, BF was on saver Y ticket. One the way home from GIG, while in GRU they called me up for an op-up. I said I was traveling with someone (although, I didn't say he had an award ticket), and they fairly quickly offered one for him too. I declined very politely because they couldn't seat us together. Five minutes later, they called both our names, gave us to C BPs - together