COPA Upgrade This Weekend
Mar 29, 2011 | 3:36 pm
#16
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: MDE
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Mar 30, 2011 | 7:26 am
#17
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Now less than 72 hours so theoretically platinums and golds have already been upgraded. Still showing 3 available in F JFK-PTY and 2 PTY-BOG. Not optimistic, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Mar 30, 2011 | 7:31 am
#18
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Between AUS, EWR, and YTO In a little twisty maze of airline seats, all alike.. but I wanna go home with the armadillo
Programs: CO, NW, & UA forum moderator emeritus. Eurobonus Millionaire
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In my experience, Copa often clears elite upgrades at the airport bef
re departure rather than via EUA -- even when there are plenty of seats available to upgrade people into.
re departure rather than via EUA -- even when there are plenty of seats available to upgrade people into.
Mar 30, 2011 | 10:45 am
#19
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 330
Called COPA and they said there's only one F seat left JFK-PTY and PTY-BOG (flightstats shows the same JFK-PTY flight three separate times, with 0, 1 or 4 seats open). So on hold now with CO now, going on 30 minutes, using miles to upgrade.
Mar 31, 2011 | 5:22 pm
#20
Join Date: May 2010
Programs: CO Silver (and proud of it!)
Posts: 5
I am I think 6 for 6 as a Silver on Copa upgrades, but they are usually at the gate, or right before hand. Rarely emailed ahead of time. But, YMMV.
Mar 31, 2011 | 6:14 pm
#21
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 330
I got the last seats on both flights. I thought I had a good chance of the upgrade but based on flightstats I saw that it wasn't gonna happen, so I used 20,000 miles, but it's well worth it.