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Does this mean you are actually #1 on the standby upgrade list, or is this just a larger category?

Seems I never get the EAU on the 767s....

Sky Team Elite 1 - You must be CO gold. ST2 is for PLATs. A decent search would have given you the answers you seek.

ST1 is also used for Silver Elites.

Sidetrack, and not directed at the OP particularly:

Why do people think the process is called EAU and not EUA? It's an extremely common mistake. I have never understood why people make it. Does anyone know why?

(My only guess is that people mistakenly think it stands for something like 'elite automatic upgrade'. Is that it?)

I did a search for ST1 and it returned no results.

I really don't understand why some people get so upset if a question is asked that you think should be easily found by searching. Here's an idea, why don't you do a search to make sure it returns results first?

Yes, in fact, I did think it stood for Elite Automatic Upgrade.

I think searches have to be made with a four character string or longer. So no searching "S", "ST", or "ST1". ST11 would be okay.

...Except ST11 means nothing. Hopefully the three character search problem will be fixed soon. I'm not holding my breath.

Regarding standby/waitlist number, only a gate agent can tell you where you stand. It is not printed on your boarding pass.

The standby waitlist is usually posted on a dot-matrix printout on the side of the podium. I don't think they're meant to be viewed by the passengers, but I see lots of people walking up there to check, and I did it once or twice too. :)

The standby list is not posted everywhere though. I usually check the list myself and one time I saw that I was already upgraded. Went to podium explained that I was on the list and saw I was upgaded and asked for my new BP. GA simply said FC was full (without checking) :mad:. But since I was upgraded I had a lot of patience and explained it again and got the BP :).

You can use google advanced search for 3 letter strings by restricting the search to flyertalk.com. But I agree, it's annoying and somewhat mind-boggling that at frequent flyer site of all places restricts 3 letter search strings. I mean you can't search for airport codes or code pairs on the site search..

...or have your searches too close to one another. It really bugs me that I need to wait 10 seconds just because I mistyped a query. Grr.

Or get 15,000 irrelevent hits becuase you are searching for 2 or 3 words that you intend to be found together but it returns every single thread ever with those 2 or 3 words anywhere in any order inside.

It's mostly viewed (and for use) by non-revenue passengers.

At Northwest, they're called Elite Automated Upgrades. It's really a minor term of art issue IMHO.