Fly with 5 open seats in FC
Jan 6, 2013, 7:40 am
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Fly with 5 open seats in FC
I was on DL 6198 yesterday (1/5) from LGA-RDU and noticed that first class flew with 5 open seats. I am GM and had an economy-plus seat (that probably had the most legroom anyways) and it was a short flight, so it wasn't a big deal. Just wondering what happened? The flight was relatively empty in general as well.
Jan 6, 2013, 7:46 am
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I was on DL 6198 yesterday (1/5) from LGA-RDU and noticed that first class flew with 5 open seats. I am GM and had an economy-plus seat (that probably had the most legroom anyways) and it was a short flight, so it wasn't a big deal. Just wondering what happened? The flight was relatively empty in general as well.
Jan 6, 2013, 7:50 am
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I am only making a few assumptions here. I assume since the OP mentioned that row 5 has the most leg room they were on a RJ. If they were on the RJ maybe it was a weight and balance issue I could be totally wrong.
Jan 6, 2013, 7:58 am
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The GA would have been the person to ask (the FA's don't generally have all the details on the upgrade lists, etc). It would be helpful to know if the OP verified he was actually on the upgrade list. Could be another case were the "Upgrade Requested" flag was not set for his flight. Otherwise, could be there were 5 FC non-shows (perhaps due to IRROPS) and GA did not bother to pull people up.
Jan 6, 2013, 8:46 am
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Where were all the non-revs? I thought it was the backbone of FT to assert that the GAs can't wait to fill the front cabin with their friends so that they can party at the expense of deserving Medallions.
Jan 6, 2013, 8:53 am
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I was on DL 6198 yesterday (1/5) from LGA-RDU and noticed that first class flew with 5 open seats. I am GM and had an economy-plus seat (that probably had the most legroom anyways) and it was a short flight, so it wasn't a big deal. Just wondering what happened? The flight was relatively empty in general as well.
Are you sure your UG was requested?
Jan 6, 2013, 9:12 am
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Jan 6, 2013, 9:18 am
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If it were a W&B issue then the GA could have removed the UG requests on his/her own; however, I would expect this to be announced to the impacted Medallions.
Jan 7, 2013, 2:40 pm
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