First Class Upgrade for thre silvers
 

What do you think are chances of upgrade to first for three passengers on DCA-DTW sector for midmorning flight when the avilability 24 hours before shows P7 F0?

Sorry about misspelling in the thread title.

Edited to apologise for typo.

[This message has been edited by Yaatri (edited 10-30-2002).]

It depends on everybodys status

usually if there is no F then no you wont be auto upgraded and dont even bother calling as res wont be able to upgrade unless F is available and all members are elite.

also no need to call res when doing a elite upgrade as the system automatically upgrades all elite members as long as everyone in the record is elite. if no F available it will automaticaly put you on the standby list!

hope that helped

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Sorry to have not given complete information. All three of them are silvers and have been rescheduled from a flight that was eliminated in the new schedule.

In my DCA experience, it depends more on the day of the week. Monday and Friday's 9:25a, your chances are pretty low. But the 11:00a mid-morning DCA->DTW is a pretty good bet for Silvers.

If you've got the option to connect through MEM instead, you'll find much better chances. Not once have I ever sat in the back on a DCA->MEM flight, and the travel times are similar if you're connecting.

Thanks Lance. I noticed too that the availibility for upgrades on 11:00 am DCA-DTW is very good. They are leaving on THursday to connect with NW85 to NRT, which departs at 12:45. NW229 departing DCA at 11:00 is scheduled to arrive at 12:37 P.M. My wife is travelling with children,all Siliver, so I don't want her to have to rush. I had thought of swtiching to the later flight, but decided not to.

One never knows if a Plat will add a companion to the list, that will reduce your chances, unless your upgrades come through at the Silver window.

Plat Companion supersedes a silver? Right now there are 7 seats in P bucket and none in F. Of the nine seats currently assigned, those that haven't been purchased as First or ugraded from Y fare, have obiously gone to golds and plats. So I guess, it just deoends on how many giolds and plats are still waiting for upgrades. I have never got a straight answer. For a flight departing Oct. 31 at 9:25 A.M., the silver window was last night, midnight, or has it yet to arrive?

Their original flight was from BWI, on which my wife already been upgraded as of yesterday. I don;t quite understand how that happened.

No. Not on NW. On CO, they do.

When that happened, you should have tried to get them to place her into a P seat. They have done this for me when things got messed up on a flight. The added benefit of this, of course, is that the record then shows P as the booking classes and you get the 50% elite qualifying bonus.