Upgrades chances for elite on LAX network
 

Dear CO flyers,

As I am trying to learn more about onepass elite programs, I have the following questions! I hope these questions won't bore any of the CO experts.

I want to inquire about percentage on getting u/g on CO flights out of LAX for EWR and IAH and CLE, as an elite member of CO (silver, gold and platinum).

What will be the most difficult routes to obtain upgrade on CO's domestic network?

Thanks,
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i can only speak from experiences back when i was just silver, but anything to the west coast to/from CLE was close to impossible. i've never had a problem out of vegas tho.

On LAX-EWR a couple of weeks ago, there was no room in 1st for 2 Plats and 1 Gold on the waitlist. The return EWR-SAN , it was just as dismal. Much less upgrades as Gold, this year over last. Now I will see what they do for Plats.

greetings from another SAN-person.

As a Gold I sat in the back of the bus for a recent (post 9/11) LAX-EWR redeye. Ugh. So much for lighter load factors.

I haven't flown SAN-EWR in a long time but I will be in a week or so; I'll give you more info then. CO's affection for 737s on transco routes severely limits your upgrade chances - there are only a handful of F seats on the plane to begin with.

You can try to increase your chances by finding a flight on a 757 (though that is a daunting task in itself).

I do agree with duxfan, getting the u/g from LAS has been very easy for me as well.

hey i'm in CLE, i exactly how hard it is to find a 757! i'm just lucky that i still have 737s on the CLE-LAS service! the 737-800's and -900's have 18 F seats and have been better for the upgrades. what really frosts my cinnabon is when CO runs a ratty old -300 with no audio/video and 12 F seats. i had that happen on a few CLE-SEA and CLE-SFO flights this summer.



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I just flew CLE-LAX 3 weeks ago. I used airmiles to secure an upgrade on the way there. On the way back, I flew LAX-IAH-CLE. The first leg they used a big plane, with the three columns of seats so I got upgraded to first no problem. But from IAH-CLE was a smaller plane (only 12 seats in first) and they made several announcements at the gate that there would be no Elite upgrades on this flight. Thing is, the flight from LAX-IAH is the longest, and the IAH-CLE was not too bad being in economy.

Frankly, I think it really boils down to what size plane they use.

Ok, so I'm going off-track a bit, but...

Once, last year, I was flying SNA-EWR and they made an a/c change to a 737-300.
The 73G's were bad enough, but I wondered all the way home whether the 733 would actually be flying the last 500 miles on fumes http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif