etiquette?
Feb 5, 2004 | 10:49 am
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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etiquette?
Hi everybody,
On the return leg of my last trip, I finally earned elite status on CO. I've not flown since, but I am planning on taking a trip this weekend, and others soon. I was wondering what the proper etiquette was to see about getting upgraded to FC? Do I simply "wait and see" when I get to the gate? Or do they actually pull people up front once everybody has boarded the plane? Any tips would be great appreciated. Thanks much!
On the return leg of my last trip, I finally earned elite status on CO. I've not flown since, but I am planning on taking a trip this weekend, and others soon. I was wondering what the proper etiquette was to see about getting upgraded to FC? Do I simply "wait and see" when I get to the gate? Or do they actually pull people up front once everybody has boarded the plane? Any tips would be great appreciated. Thanks much!
Feb 5, 2004 | 10:53 am
#2
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35
A few different things may happen:
Sometimes you will get an email from Continental telling you that you've been upgraded with your new seat assignment
Sometimes you will check in and find that you've been upgraded
Occasionally a flight attendent will come to you and tell you that you can move up after you've taken your coach seat
So there's no need to wait until everyone else has boarded the plane
Sometimes you will get an email from Continental telling you that you've been upgraded with your new seat assignment
Sometimes you will check in and find that you've been upgraded
Occasionally a flight attendent will come to you and tell you that you can move up after you've taken your coach seat
So there's no need to wait until everyone else has boarded the plane
Feb 5, 2004 | 1:43 pm
#3
Join Date: Sep 2003
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FrequentStark:
Occasionally a flight attendent will come to you and tell you that you can move up after you've taken your coach seat.</font>
Occasionally a flight attendent will come to you and tell you that you can move up after you've taken your coach seat.</font>
Feb 5, 2004 | 1:56 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CALflyboi:
You can always inquire with the agents working the flights about you chances of an upgrade.</font>
You can always inquire with the agents working the flights about you chances of an upgrade.</font>
Watch specific stations (like DFW) that have known issues with lazy GA's letting F seats fly empty. You may have to harp on them a bit.
Feb 5, 2004 | 3:26 pm
#5
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: PHX
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As a fellow silver-leveler, I wish you all the luck in the world with your upgrades. I remember back before CO handed out Silvers like a drug dealer handing out free samples to hook the next addict, I used to upgrade on at least 75% of my flights going through IAH.
Now I fly through IAH and EWR mostly and my percentage of upgrades is below 10%. Oh well...
At least I don't have to wait in the long lines at Terminal 2 in Phoenix...
And speaking of T2 Continental, thanks for moving from that beautiful, big, convenient PHX T4 to the small, dirty, cramped and third-world worthy T2. I was beginning to think you guys might care... *sniff*
Now I fly through IAH and EWR mostly and my percentage of upgrades is below 10%. Oh well...
At least I don't have to wait in the long lines at Terminal 2 in Phoenix...
And speaking of T2 Continental, thanks for moving from that beautiful, big, convenient PHX T4 to the small, dirty, cramped and third-world worthy T2. I was beginning to think you guys might care... *sniff*
Feb 5, 2004 | 6:26 pm
#6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rxn20:
Hi everybody,
On the return leg of my last trip, I finally earned elite status on CO. I've not flown since, but I am planning on taking a trip this weekend, and others soon. I was wondering what the proper etiquette was to see about getting upgraded to FC? Do I simply "wait and see" when I get to the gate? Or do they actually pull people up front once everybody has boarded the plane? Any tips would be great appreciated. Thanks much!</font>
Hi everybody,
On the return leg of my last trip, I finally earned elite status on CO. I've not flown since, but I am planning on taking a trip this weekend, and others soon. I was wondering what the proper etiquette was to see about getting upgraded to FC? Do I simply "wait and see" when I get to the gate? Or do they actually pull people up front once everybody has boarded the plane? Any tips would be great appreciated. Thanks much!</font>
Feb 7, 2004 | 12:15 am
#7
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by snapperhead:
And speaking of T2 Continental, thanks for moving from that beautiful, big, convenient PHX T4 to the small, dirty, cramped and third-world worthy T2.</font>
And speaking of T2 Continental, thanks for moving from that beautiful, big, convenient PHX T4 to the small, dirty, cramped and third-world worthy T2.</font>
Back then, there was no parking garage, the floors were terazzo (with the city seal embedded in the center), and you could walk to all of the rental cars.
Feb 7, 2004 | 2:12 pm
#8
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[quote]<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mweiss:
Yep...time changes evrything. T1 is now the cargo terminal...
Originally posted by snapperhead:
Funny how things change. I remember what a treat T2 was when I flew on an AA DC-10 PHX-JFK. Back in the summer of 1976. At least T2 had the jetways. T1 was stair boarding at the time.
Back then, there was no parking garage, the floors were terazzo (with the city seal embedded in the center), and you could walk to all of the rental cars.
Funny how things change. I remember what a treat T2 was when I flew on an AA DC-10 PHX-JFK. Back in the summer of 1976. At least T2 had the jetways. T1 was stair boarding at the time.
Back then, there was no parking garage, the floors were terazzo (with the city seal embedded in the center), and you could walk to all of the rental cars.
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Feb 7, 2004 | 2:18 pm
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If you are flying with a non-elite on the same reservation, be sure to call CO a day or two before your departure and request that your reservation be "split". Otherwise, no u/g.
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Feb 8, 2004 | 6:56 am
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Continental had to move because they were getting gates from America West. And since they were no longer in a committed relationship, they split up the silverware, and HP kept the house.