Upgrade using E-Service machine, more than 2 hours prior to takeoff?
 

They always say same day upgrades aren't available @ airport until 2 hours prior to departure. However, in reality, if you show up early, esp. to the P-Club, they will upgrade you anyway. What happens with the E-Service machine? If I use the machine in Penn Station 4 hours prior to departure, will it give me an upgrade if seats are available? Or, will it not upgrade me because I am before the 2 hour window?

If I don't have a EUA I will use the elite line, the PC used to be better but I prefer to clear security with a boarding pass.

It helps with the ever changing application of security rules

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The e-service kiosk will, in my experience, furnish an upgrade any time after midnight on the day of the flight.

"The e-service kiosk will, in my experience, furnish an upgrade any time after midnight on the day of the flight. "

Assuming, of course, that the A to F conversion has occurred.

I realize snakes have no reason to know the old standby "CYA", being, as they are, devoid of As, but I'll explain it to you if you like.

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I think what we have here is a failure to communicate.

I recently used the sole E-Service machine at NYP 3 hours prior to my flight and received an upgrade-- and this was after calling CO earlier that morning and being told that only revenue F space was still available.

HTH.

Globetrotter; thanks for your reply. My question was really clear: I just wanted to know whether it paid to try to check in at the E Service kiosk in Penn Station MORE THAN TWO HOURS prior to departure, vis-a-vis getting an elite upgrade. I don't know why everyone else was so off topic. Thanks for your info!

It pays to do so.

The rule is that you can check in at midnight the day of the flight, or two hours prior, whichever is earlier (i.e., for a 1AM flight, you can check in at 11PM the "previous day," two hours prior to departure).

Glad to have helped; hope you got/will get that upgrade!