Tomorrow, Ironman -- I'm on the Congressmen's special (1821).

If it hasn't cleared by this evening, I'm going to call again and ask flat out whether ther eare really no R seats on an F9 flight. (F9 load, not Frontier) :D

1821? MHT-DTW? :p

Ummm... as I said. 107. :)

5/13 NW 107 P4F1Y5B5M2H2Q1V1L1T1K1 right now.

I'm seeing about the same: Cabin class: P4 F4 Y5 B4 M4 H1 Q1 V1 L1 T1 K1

Wasn't expecting that one to clear, but my return for Monday was P9 F9 a few hours ago -- and just went to P2 F2. I bet they ran the &%*%&(%(&%( golds. Still not cleared.

I suspect plats on award tickets are now below golds on discount fares, based on my experience and Rich MSP's.

:mad:

Plat upgrades on award tix come out of A inventory... and on a DCA-DTW or MSP flight those are zero'd out weeks in advance.

<huge sigh> Thanks Zip -- that would explain. I'm also batting zero on my MSP-RNO-MSP legs. Had I known, I would have paid a ticket, maybe on WN -- where at least the snacks are free.

Only other time I took a domestic award, they all cleared at five days, normally.


:(

True. And this might explain why Alpha Golf wasn't upgraded.

However, in my case I know for a fact that multiple "A" seats existed several days in advance and I still got skipped. EUA enters a remark in your PNR if the process is unsuccessful due to seats not being available. No such remark appeared in my PNR and Golds had definitely been upgraded ahead of me.

How did you find out A inventory?

Any good places to eat at MSP? <sniff>

Good inside source. :cool:

As for food, I noticed they recently opened a new French Meadow Bakery on the F (old Red) Concourse but haven't tried it yet. The one on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis is well known. Otherwise, there's always TGIF on C, Chili's on G, and D'Amico & Sons or Split Rock Bar & Grill in the main terminal.

Good luck on scoring a battlefield upgrade! (And keep in mind even if you do, the only choice for dinner will be to eat or not. :rolleyes: )

And right now that sounds so appealing!

Checkin in 17 minutes, give or take 10 seconds.

Few weeks ago, my DTW-SFO flight showed P0 F0.

But I still got upgraded at the gate. Not just myself, but also with my companion as well

So never give up hope.

Did you end up getting it? Grin, I love being told "You're #22 on the list - go ahead and board."

Still crossing my fingers on the return....

Oh red tail, please forgive your faithless servant...

None of four cleared in advance (DCA-MSP-RNO-MSP-DCA). Were all showing P0 and P1 at various times. OLCId all of them. And got all four on battlefield.

For RNO-MSP yesterday, two of us got it at gate, three more plats left in back. MSP-DCA I asked at counter; she reflexively said no, didn't clear. Then with a start asked ny name and said "oh yes yours did."

We love you Red Tail. Now please restore the catering...

RNO is a tough UG market...after being spoiled by living outside ABQ and UGing on every flight I ever had in or out as a Silver, I moved to RNO in November, became Gold at the end of the month, and since then have had a 0% success rate on outbound flights, and 66.67% success rate on inbounds.

One of the NW staff told me that ski season is very bad for UGs, but things are better when that calms down...it may be true, as I actually UGd three days in advance for my RNO-MSP and MSP-LGA flights tomorrow!