flychobo

Thanks for the response and I agree it would be nice to have some kind of spend only option for status. I'm already way past platinum spend but only silver.

TheHorta

If I were you, the moment I got off that plane I'd head straight to the nearest Powerball ticket seller. ;-)

HometoYYZ

Just wrapped up my first-half flying.... pretty happy with the upgrade history.

Ended up going 32 for 36 in upgrades, for 27,980 of 30,351 eligible miles upgrades -- only "long" miss was PHX-MSP, other misses were SLC-LAS (ended up #8 of 38 on the list... lots of Diamonds going to Vegas that week I guess!) and oddly enough JFK-YYZ twice over the last two weeks.

22 of 32 upgrades were at the 5-day window -- only two gate upgrades.

MCO Flyer

Duke787

GM:

RDU - LGA, F cleared at window on original flight. Same day confirmed to later flight with no F available. Cleared to C+. E170

LGA - RDU, F cleared at window on original flight. Changed to earlier flight and cleared at gate to F as 1/8 with 4 clearing. CR9

TommyD2

For the first half of 2018:
- 50 of 56 for complimentary upgrades. 7 at gate, remainder mostly at window.
- 12 FCM/RUC/GUC
- 4 FC on award tix

So just under 90% complimentary upgrades, about 92% up front overall.

kstateinALB

6/17 -
MCI-MSP, cleared at GM window
MSP-PDX, was originally 6th in line at the gate for two seats, however the flight ended up getting delayed a few hours due to the crew being late. FC seats ended up opening as people moved to another flight, ended up 4th in line with four seats open and got the UG.

6/23 -
PDX-MSP, cleared at GM window
MSP-MCI, cleared at GM window

Overall 4/4 on this trip. Taking the same PDX-MSP-MCI redeye routing next week and it's looking to be the same situation.

stillontheroad

Just received notice of upgrade on both segments of my flight on Thursday afternoon, but as luck would have it I will be wrapping up my business on Wednesday and was going to attempt to SDC to the early morning flights.

At lease the upgrade process worked even if I won't be using it.

SDQBound

SDQ-ATL - Upgraded to C+ at the gate, ended 1/9 for 0 seats
ATL-DCA - Upgraded to C+ at booking, ended 10+ for 0 seats
IAD-MEX - Upgraded to F at the Gate (AM Flight)
MEX-IAD - Upgraded to F at the Gate (AM Flight)
DCA-LGA - Upgraded to C+ at booking, ended #9 of many for 0 sets
JFK-DCA - Upgraded to F at the window
DCA-ATL - Upgraded to F at the window - Flight cancelled due to winter storm
ATL-FLL - Upgraded to F at the window - Flight rebooked due to winter storm
BWI-ATL - Upgraded to F after rebooking
ATL-FLL - Upgraded to F at the Gate - Played #teamboardslast and won
DCA-JFK - Upgraded to F at the window
JFK-SDQ - Upgraded to F at the window
SDQ-JFK - Upgraded to F at the window
JFK-DCA - Upgraded to C+ at booking, Ended 1/22 for 0 seats
DCA-ATL - Upgraded to C+ at booking, Ended 2/25 for 0 seats
ATL-FLL - Upgraded to F at the Gate
FLL-ATL - Upgraded to C+ at booking, Ended #3 and #4 for 3 seats, decided not to split.
ATL-BOG - Upgraded to F at the gate
BOG-ATL - Upgraded to F at the window
ATL-DCA - Upgraded to C+ at booking, ended #1 for 0 seats
JFK-SDQ - Upgraded to F at the window, gave up my seat at the gate to sit with companion in C+.
JFK-DCA - Upgraded to F at the window
DCA-ATL - Upgraded to C+ at booking, waiting for F upgrade
ATL-SJU - Upgraded to F at the window

C+ 24/24 (100%)
F 16/23 (70%)

Keith2004

First Half of 2018 I'm at 62%, 40% cleared at window
Few not surprised (Saturday morning flights)
Few Surprises, Friday evening DTW-SAN, Sat Morning DCA-ATL

SDQBound

I would say that DCA-ATL on a Sat Morning is not that difficult

apodo77

6/28/18

2448 PBI-ATL - no 1st class seats available since last week so I'll call this a no upgrade
694 ATL-ORD - me + companion upgraded at T5 window

nikko4me

6/18: BOS to SFO, used GUC and was notified over weekend it cleared!
6/21: SFO to BOS, was #2 for 1 seat, but at boarding, paper BP came up with seat 4D.

Not sure why but glad for the UG, #1 and #3 had same last name. is it possible #1 opted out?

CMK10

As FO:
1/26: DL 782 RDU-DTW 717-200 X Fare: 19 and 20 out of 28 for F, 2 and 3 of 3 for C+
1/29: DL 4051 JFK-RDU CRJ-900 X Fare: 1 and 2 out of 6 for F. Annoyingly there was an empty seat in F but the F/A refused to move me up because "only the gate agent can"

As GM:
2/03: DL 3623 RDU-LGA CRJ-900 X Fare: 1 and 2 out of 6 for F.
2/10: DL 3623 RDU-LGA CRJ-900 X Fare: Cleared with Companion at T-72.
2/22 DL 5484 RDU-EWR CRJ-700 X Fare: Cleared at T-72
2/25 DL 1606 LAS-ATL A-321 T Fare: #1 0 of 17, C+ at T-72
2/26 DL 2351 ATL-RDU MD-88 T Fare: #38 of 64, 21 of 35 for C+
3/30 DL 2773 RDU-DTW MD-90 T Fare: Cleared at Window
3/30 DL 6201 DTW-YYZ CRJ-900 T Fare: Cleared at Window
3/31 DL 2551 YYZ-ATL 717-200 V Fare: Cleared at Gate
3/31 DL 1177 ATL-RDU MD-88 V Fare: Cleared at Gate
4/04 DL 6228 RDU-DCA CRJ-700 V Fare: Cleared at Window
4/13 DL 6250 RDU-DCA CRJ-700 X Fare: #3 of 11 at the Gate, one person pulled up after boarding.
4/22 DL 1663 MKE-ATL MD-88 X Fare: #9 of 19
4/22 DL 889 ATL-RDU MD-88 X Fare: #9 of 14 at the Gate, one person pulled up after boarding
4/26 DL 5212 RDU-JFK CRJ-900 U Fare: #1 of 4 at the Gate
4/30 DL 6280 BOS-RDU CRJ-900 L Fare: Cleared at T-72
5/19 DL 2012 ORD-ATL 737-700 V Fare: Cleared at T-72
5/19 DL 2034 ATL-RDU 757-200 V Fare: #4 of 8
5/24 DL 2856 MCO-RDU 717-200 X Fare: Cleared at T-72
6/01 DL 4562 RDU-EWR CRJ-900 V Fare: Cleared at T-72
6/03 DL 1238 MDT-ATL 717-200 L Fare: Cleared at the Gate
6/03 DL 889 ATL-RDU 757-200 L Fare: #12 of 19. There were 5 empty F seats and the gate agent came on board and asked the lead flight attendant if she could pull people up. Lead F/A said no
6/05 DL 1564 RDU-ATL MD-88 Q Fare: #12 of 35. Pretty high finish for a GM on this route, guess the Q Fare helped.
6/24 DL 2096 GSO-ATL MD-88 V Fare: Cleared at T-22
6/24 DL 2544 ATL-MEM MD-88 V Fare: #2 of 10
6/25 DL 2106 LIT-ATL 717-200 T Fare: Cleared at T-36
6/25 DL 0540 ATL-GSO MD-88 T Fare: #8 of 14, One Passenger pulled up after boarding

Currently 50.00% (14/28)

CarmenOM