Originally Posted by
ijgordon
CO would have no way of knowing for sure that the 15 other J pax were 100% locked and loaded, other than to look at historical patterns. So it still doesn't make sense why they would cancel the waitlist.
this is precisely why it does make sense to cancel the waitlist. continental (CO) has an ungodly amount of data that it uses to make these decisions. if, after statistical analysis, CO believes that the passenger definitely won't be upgraded or has an extremely small chance of being upgraded, i am all for cancelling the waitlist, even if it is an extra hour, day, week...ahead of time.