A lot depends on the market. If you're a Plat out of SFO you'll be lucky to have greater than a 35% upgrade rate, assuming you're not buying M+ fares...and even then it's dicey.

If you're flying transcons you can expect close to 0.

A year or so ago Scott posted that on average only 1 person got upgraded on transcon flights (which really means that multiple people were getting upgraded on the off times/redeyes flights.)

As an IAH'er I've enjoyed respectable rates to most markets as I've learned to avoid the primetime flights and peak destinations (or fly AA or UA :p) but being a CO elite in LAX/SFO is hard if you're doing it for the upgrades.

Running away - need to get the car's oil changed before racquetball.

Those uninterested in feeding trolls could "enjoy" teh botemkin Village.

PostWhore.com: where everyone is a moderator and :rolleyes: rules the world.

Im installing a forum on a domain I had sitting around @:-)

I guess it could have a travel-related forum, but I'm not sure whether posts there should count. :-:

That shouldn't bother you at all. In fact, the more people who believe that CO Y is Gulag Class™ and no one ever gets an upgrade, and shun routing over any other, the better.

Edit: Of course this has revenue implications for CO; I am speaking purely from the standpoint of vested interest.

Rumors are swirling that the day will end with 70-80 layoffs at the Associated Press.

Can post counts be artificially inflated and deflated?

Having run a 6000+ user forum in the past (not nearly as large as FT) I've found that letting anything happen generally leads to the total destruction of the entire site.

I think rampant, unrepentant chaos and :rolleyes: would kind of be the point to a Forum dedicated to meaningless accumulation of posts. :-:

^ Gotta love that. :)

Last month I was on a MR consisting of two separate itins - AUS-LAX with LAX-BOS embedded. The return BOS-LAX was cancelled due to no pilot so I overnighted in BOS. AAs original solution (phone agent) was to get me home 12 hours later than scheduled. No can do. Talked to a GA who re-routed me back to AUS (BOS-DFW-AUS), hence I was out about 1750 or so miles for the run.

Long story short - called customer service intending to ask for those additional miles and yes - I was going to ask for the miles from the separate itin they caused me to miss. Not only did they let me keep the BOS-AUS miles, they gave me BOS-LAX and LAX-AUS. Thanks AA. :D


(Good afternoon Box!)

yes i understand this, and I know UA has a lot of West Coast elites, I am just saying that overall CO is not nearly as bad as the people that post it continually saying how bad the upgrade rates are. it is FULLY market based, and CO/UA having such is a good thing in the end for all, not a bad thing.

just like i posted there, having a system that works together doesnt mean a mass exodus of fliers from one to the other! I MAY fly UA 2-3 times a year, otherwise the simply don't go where I need to go. and in any case I'd have to fly a combo itin with CO and UA on the same.

It's all :p, :D and :rolleyes: until some posts something from a .cx domain. :-:

I have tons of domains, and avialable servers, I just don't see need to make a forum dedicated to the box. making a new FT alternative may be an option if this :rolleyes: of servers keeps up, just to give the finger to IB.