Originally Posted by
star_world
Easily beaten that this year - 62 upgradeable CO flights, 52 upgraded. That's 84%. Only about 4 or 5 of the flights were Y-ups. I fly transcon (usually to SNA) about once a month - been upgraded on several of those - and the rest is scattered everywhere - CLE, ORD, ATL, DEN, etc. I'm amazed at how low of an upgrade % people seem to get out of EWR!
Well star_world, you're the king of Newark, at least so far.
Question: Did you fly a lot of expensive fares? Did you go out of your way to book flights that might be inconvenient but would be likely to have better upgrade chances?