CMK10

This morning I was flying AS 60 which flies JNU-KTN-SEA. I'm American Executive Platinum (OW Emerald) but had not cleared the upgrade prior to departure. I showed as #1 on the upgrade waitlist and asked the gate agent at JNU about it. She said the flight was weight restricted so she wasn't allowed to upgrade me. Now this seems a little odd as I was in 6F and I don't think moving me one row would change a lot but I did gain a lot of weight the last few years so maybe it would. Anyway, the flight had all of 50 people on it so who cares?

Once in KTN I asked the gate agent about the upgrade down to SEA. I knew this flight would be full so they could move all 280 pounds of me up to First no problem. However, the gate agent told me she didn't show me on the upgrade waitlist at all. I showed her the app which showed me at #1 and she told me that was only for my first flight. Sure enough I didn't show on the departure monitor at the gate at all so I was back in 6F down to SEA.

Is there a trick for these one stop flights I should know for the future? It was my first time on one of them and I'm still learning about the quirks in this new AA/AS partnership.

PDXPremier

Another FTer (I think in one of the threads about the "milk run" flights) mentioned that there is a separate upgrade list for each segment of these multi-stop flights and the gate agents in these SE Alaska cities do a good job of clearing elites if there is just upgrade space for one particular segment....not sure how that would work unless they manually broke up the segments. I have a SIT-ANC flight coming up with a stop in JNU and wondered if it would help my upgrade chances to split those segments up but I'm not sure that's possible without changing the pricing of the ticket.

PDXPremier

Is there any way to be assigned different seat assignments for each segment without breaking the itinerary into separate segments?

beckoa

Seat assignments, yes.

Cabin, no. The ticket would need to be split; it can be done but is rare... reissue required. These days there may be extra taxes too...

PDXPremier

Just chatted with an agent about it and they said you can't have different seat assignments on multi-stop flights so either they were misinformed or this is something that can only be done at the gate.

Eurynom0s

Different seat assignments as in Y/premium/F?

PDXPremier

Nope...same cabin but different seats...figured I would at least get PC as MVPG on these SE Alaska flights but it looks like it's going to be main cabin....My guess is that a relatively high % of non-elites are still paying for PC even without seat blocking. I was shocked the other day to overhear someone purchasing a middle PC seat on the SEA-PHL red-eye...maybe they had a middle in the back but still a lot of $$ for a middle.

Klrduks

I agree with other posters. I believe you can only assign one seat for a single flight number, even if it stops multiple times. You could always ask at each stop to change your seat but it is not automatic.

beckoa

This is done at the gate.

PDXPremier

I didn't bother--by that time most of the seats I would have wanted would have been taken most likely.

UAPremierExec

CMK- the agent in Ketch misled you or had bad info, OR they knew #2 on the list and protected their "own" elites. I've been cleared many times on the final leg down to Seattle- but you mostly have to ask for it (as you did). They won't clear you on the intra-Ak segment (jnu/ktn) and put you back in steerage for ktn-sea.

*in fact my trip down here I was in steerage jnu/sit/ktn then upgraded out of Ketch.