Zorak

^ Thanks! I have what is for me a rare itinerary with a companion (non-Medallion but generic SkyMiles member) coming up this weekend and the above procedure got us into WU.

EDIT: it occurred to me, this is a route where I routinely clear into F at the DM window and we had not cleared yet. So I repeated the above process but for the F upgrade instead of the C+ upgrade, and we were immediately upgraded into RU on the outbound (not inside the window yet for the return flight). So just another data point.

jdrtravel

Also just worked for me. This is great. My husband is PM and we have been waiting to move to C+ for a spring trip to LIH, but could not yet because I am GM.

btonkid12345

It seemed soft rollout meant - it is working in the production environment of the system, to test it. They are likely looking purposely for bugs.

Pushing it to the site simply means updating the language on the site once they are confident it works and thus they will officially the announce the changes to everyone.

Glad to hear its working for C+ into WU for a bunch of folks.

rylan

Just booked a flight for a weekend trip and it worked for me... 'upgraded' to WU immediately after purchasing for me and GM companion. Good improvement/fix for getting C+ seats like we used to (pretty much).

appleguru

On the phone with the DM line now, at least this agent has no idea that these changes are going into effect "soft" or otherwsie today... asked her to double check, am on hold.

nikitta28

this just worked for me as well

appleguru

She came back and confirmed it. This is a very soft launch...

appleguru

And yes, they are hanging very firm on the same PNR requirement (FYI). This is good IMO (no great for one of my irons that I booked and DL split before this debacle... but in general good ;-))

ILovetheReds

It also worked for F for me but not my sister.

I am travelling as a diamond with my gold son Sunday, she is on a different ticket with her daughter (she is PM and her daughter is no-status general). Both our kids are old enough to not be UM FWIW.

I checked the box for upgrade to C+ after seeing there were some seats together and it upgraded my son and myself into C+ immediately on both the outbound and returned but made use choose seats. I went back and chose the first class upgrade request and we were both put into First for the outbound. The return is after the upgrade window but still plenty of F seats and will be nice if we clear again but if not I'm happy with our C+ seats

I called me sister and she is on a different return but it allowed her to select C+ for both flights but has her as "upgrade requested" for the first upgrade Sunday. Not sure if it's because she and her daughter are lower status that they didn't clear into F like I did or if we got the last 2 RU seats.

anon2k2

Assuming you're sitting next to your flying companion, I guess this solves the empty middle C+ seat issue.

ILovetheReds

There was an empty row where my son and I could have had an empty middle, but I wasn't going to play that game. Unfair to a solo traveler and on the odd chance no one would chose it Delta tends to put SB's and NRSA's waiting at the gate for seat assignment into those seats

banness

I don't like this at all. As a Diamond, I am always #4-5 on upgrade list. This will push me and my loyalty way back on the list. Upgrades are hard to come by now and its only going to get worse when entire families traveling together can be ahead of me! I can't get into economy comfort all the time now!

flyerslc

It also just worked for me. Thanks pauly long!
I'm so happy for this improvement. Oh wait, this is how it used to be before the enhancement.

ILovetheReds

It is a lot better for C+ than the original policy since it's only PM and DM +1 that will clear at time of booking unlike up to 8 companions before. If it's a diamond travelling with his family of 3 they will be in C- unless one of the members of the family is also a PM+ and they book two different tickets.

As far as first class, I am hoping they will clear all solo diamonds and then diamonds +1, solo PMs then PM +1 like they American does with their EP but no one has a definite answer on how they are handling this yet.

kpbadger

Via the website, I un-requested the C+ upgrade, and then re-requested it. It cleared for me plus my non-status companion on the same PNR for 4 of the 5 flights within minutes. Not sure what's up with the first segment of the journey which didn't clear despite availability - it's several months away, but if it doesn't clear in the near future I'll probably call in.

Edit to say: This also made the price of the FCM offer go up by $40 per person each way.

Edit 2: After 10 minutes I tried the un-request re-request sequence again, and the 5th segment cleared to WU as well. Possibly rolled out to some of their servers but not others?