Buying first class is great until something goes wrong...
Feb 15, 2019, 9:33 pm
#46
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What.. why? Flight is oversold. It is what it is.
Why would F get special treatment? If Delta isn't willing to sell a $1500 one-way Y ticket (their usual last seat before oversale price for a domestic ticket), they won't be willing to put an F passenger on the flight.
F passengers aren't that special. If they provided that treatment to F passengers, I should expect the same treatment as a Y passenger that pays more for my flights (especially on a per mile/segment basis) than most F passengers.
Maybe you could talk about that kind of stuff for international J travelers that miss their domestic connection. Certainly not for a standard domestic Y pax.
Why would F get special treatment? If Delta isn't willing to sell a $1500 one-way Y ticket (their usual last seat before oversale price for a domestic ticket), they won't be willing to put an F passenger on the flight.
F passengers aren't that special. If they provided that treatment to F passengers, I should expect the same treatment as a Y passenger that pays more for my flights (especially on a per mile/segment basis) than most F passengers.
Maybe you could talk about that kind of stuff for international J travelers that miss their domestic connection. Certainly not for a standard domestic Y pax.
Good points--I'm just trying to think of a workaround that would actually work. If the problem is that the upgrade list is cleared before the standby list (which makes sense) then I'm looking for a way to get those standby F pax on the upgrade list if they are going to eventually be cleared.
Feb 15, 2019, 9:39 pm
#47
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As I suggested above, since you can't know for sure until the boarding cutoff whether standbys will clear, I think you'd have to do all upgrades as battlefield on any flight that has standby F pax, wouldn't you? And/or enforce full YBYL.