Not to beat a dead horse, but SOMETHING is going on that affects upgrades and that concerns a lot of Fters.
Before this "enhancement", the system ran at the 3 hour point and worked fairly well. The computer did what it was told and dished out upgrades as per its alogrithmn.

If that last 3 hour run does not occur on some random flights, the whole premise of EUA is in question, since it APPEARS that its up to the gate people to dish out the upgrades, and if they have A9F0 to deal with in a short time, who knows how they will allocate the seats. Remember that CO has stated that it will be by status, then fare code within status.
I don't plan on spending a lot more time on monitoring, but I checked briefly last night. At 17:18 EDT, the 18:40 EWR-SEA flight was A8F0 and the 17:50 EWR-CLE flight was A6F0. Does anybody beleive that there were no silver elites that were going EWR-CLE (hub to hub) that could have been assigned at least 4 of the 6 A seats that were unassigned 32 minutes before flight time.
I think its reasonable for yield management to hold back maybe 2 seats, but not more.

... in his best Officer Barbrady voice...
"Are you calling shenanigans"

Why don't you start a topic just for that -- like the one we had ONLY for questions to be asked of CO when (ha ha) they were scheduled for an FT chat.

I hear you Vulcan, but what is really happening here is an airline that couldn't care less about it's customers is messing with a flawed formula that is more of a marketing gimmick than a policy, and on the rare ocassions when it appears to be fairly stable is still subject to the intentional, deceptive manipulations of thousands of questionable employees "helping their co-workers to their benefits" and generally operating via whatever whims they wish, combined with the unintentional, ignorant manipulations of an IT department that can't keep a website up and running on any given day (much less a web event day) using stupid internally generated code and stolen code and programs.

Just fly someone else.

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What's so bad about airline food (when you get it)? I'm not so picky about food that I won't eat something if it does not meet lofty standards. When I'm hungry, airline food is just fine. It's not great food, but it's ok. And I appreciate that the airline provides it, and in FC attempts to serve it in a refined style. I like not having the hassle of picking up food before I board the flight, and would prefer to have it served to me at no extra cost or effort. Very rarely have I encounted airline food that was unedible. But I admit I'm easy to please. Are more people than I think food snobs?

[This message has been edited by anthonyanthony (edited 07-10-2003).]