Blocking adjacent seat to elite member?
#241
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I'll take this opportunity to bang on again about how I wish they'd program sby to fill in reverse order of the upgrade list's adjacent seat. E.g., first on upgrade list is last to get sby cleared as seatmate. Fine if they have exceptions for elites on sby, but 99% of the time it would be a big improvement for the top elites.
#242
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And in any event, IME you're very likely to get a 1K or a UA employee cleared into the bulkhead middles.
#243
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This is as infuriating as Delta gate agents who routinely clear BE standbys into Comfort+ instead of open seats in the back, which is more of affront given C+ is a separate fare class.
If the BE customer is a 1K/Plat/Gold, that's a different story, but certainly rarely the case from anyone whose been cleared into a seat next to me where I've had a chance to glance at their BP
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I'll take this opportunity to bang on again about how I wish they'd program sby to fill in reverse order of the upgrade list's adjacent seat. E.g., first on upgrade list is last to get sby cleared as seatmate. Fine if they have exceptions for elites on sby, but 99% of the time it would be a big improvement for the top elites.
#245
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