F class empty with T-20 hours left - no upgrades?
Nov 26, 2018, 7:47 am
#16
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I would hope that all the eligible fare purchases already on the waitlist, regardless of status, would have cleared before any 75K waiting for a complimentary upgrade. I am not following your observation that not all passengers in the cabin were 75K. Can you please expound?
James
James
Nov 29, 2018, 4:59 pm
#18
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Was just now upgraded for SFO-ORD Monday afternoon, at T-98 hours. Could even have been sooner. That's the first early upgrade in a long while...
Nov 29, 2018, 5:16 pm
#19
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I think you deserve that one after the seating fiasco. We are, however, entering one of the lightest travel weeks of the year (one of the good MR zones).
Nov 29, 2018, 10:52 pm
#20
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Last edited by metallo; Nov 29, 2018 at 11:16 pm
Nov 30, 2018, 10:39 am
#21
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: SFO/SEA
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I was on that flight and was one of the lucky ones that got upgraded. I'm Gold, not 75K. It's the first Monday morning flight SEA to Bay Area where I have received an upgrade in awhile. The upgrade list is usually really, really, long.
Jan 26, 2019, 8:28 pm
#23
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Have they done something recently to fix Airbii transcon upgrades? I'm starting to get them at T-120, versus always T-2 over the last few months.
Jan 28, 2019, 5:14 pm
#24
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Jan 28, 2019, 8:53 pm
#25
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Pretty well documented on this thread and others that U inventory is (was?) held back on transcon Airbus routes only to be released en masse a couple hours out.
For me, upgrades became a consistent T-2 hours starting in late September, back to normal when the route was flown by 737s in December, back to T-2 for the first half of January, and now seem to be working like last summer again (mostly on SFO-RDU, a route with few elites and light loads).
Jan 29, 2019, 8:53 am
#26
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Out of curiosity, which route?
Pretty well documented on this thread and others that U inventory is (was?) held back on transcon Airbus routes only to be released en masse a couple hours out.
For me, upgrades became a consistent T-2 hours starting in late September, back to normal when the route was flown by 737s in December, back to T-2 for the first half of January, and now seem to be working like last summer again (mostly on SFO-RDU, a route with few elites and light loads).
Pretty well documented on this thread and others that U inventory is (was?) held back on transcon Airbus routes only to be released en masse a couple hours out.
For me, upgrades became a consistent T-2 hours starting in late September, back to normal when the route was flown by 737s in December, back to T-2 for the first half of January, and now seem to be working like last summer again (mostly on SFO-RDU, a route with few elites and light loads).
Jan 29, 2019, 9:49 am
#27
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I've cleared an even dozen Airbus upgrades this month on SFO-RDU-SFO. 75% have cleared in advance, some as far as five days out. The remaining flights were gate upgrades where I was #1 on the list.
Jan 29, 2019, 12:33 pm
#28
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Jan 29, 2019, 12:51 pm
#29
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I've cleared an even dozen Airbus upgrades this month on SFO-RDU-SFO. 75% have cleared in advance, some as far as five days out. The remaining flights were gate upgrades where I was #1 on the list.
Overall I’m 100% on upgrades on weekly round trips on this route since October, just the time has changed. Given the low F loads, short of a holiday, I would expect 75Ks to be consistently upgraded five days out.... like I’ve seen on the much more competitive SEA-RDU route. Last night’s RDU-SFO flight only had 3 passengers in F!
Anyway, impressed at all the flights you are logging on this route - I thought my weekly commute was crazy
Jan 29, 2019, 1:33 pm
#30
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Those RDU flights were all on off-peak days: T/W/Sat. In February I have a more diverse schedule with multiple EWR, BWI and PHL trips, about half on Fri-Mon with weekend hotel stays. They could be the more challenging upgrade for an Airbus. .