What's the longest first class upgrade standby list / waitlist that you've ever seen?
Jan 21, 2019, 11:28 pm
#256
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Cape Cod MA
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Jan 22, 2019, 5:25 am
#257
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Morris County, NJ
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Posts: 2,305
Just coffee for me ... that assumes they can get through all 35 rows before putting the cart away for landing.
Booked a week ago - that’s fairly typical for me; wish my customers were better planners. :-)
Edited to add: door closed with 75 on the upgrade list. #1 got an onboard upgrade. Yikes!
Booked a week ago - that’s fairly typical for me; wish my customers were better planners. :-)
Edited to add: door closed with 75 on the upgrade list. #1 got an onboard upgrade. Yikes!
Jan 27, 2019, 7:25 am
#259
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Woodside, CA, USA
Programs: United Platinum
Posts: 517
I just boarded the opposite flight
SFO-LAX at 7am on a Sunday morning on a 737-900. First is booked and checked in 13/20, and there are ZERO on the upgrade list. I can’t remember the last time I had an empty seat next to me in domestic F.
Bob
Bob
Last edited by bpratt; Jan 27, 2019 at 7:25 am Reason: Typo
Jan 29, 2019, 7:58 pm
#261
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: UA 1K 1MM, AA Gold, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Discoverist
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You've been extremely lucky. It hasn't happened to me often but more than a couple times I haven't been able to pick E+ if I'm booking a close in flight or SDC. Even recently was kicked out of my E+ bulkhead seat to accommodate a disabled passenger and in to a E- seat in the back after boarding started.
Jan 29, 2019, 8:14 pm
#262
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: CLE
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The only 2 times I ever got upgraded as a Silver, SAT-ORD Monday morning and GEG-DEN Friday morning. Flights were on a 737 and A319 and about 40% capacity. Both had about 20 first class seats and not even 10 were occupied.
Jan 30, 2019, 5:42 am
#263
Join Date: Nov 2012
Programs: BA Bronze, United 1K, HH Gold, SPG Platinum, Marriott Platinum
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You are lucky. On my routes, all the A319s only have 8 First Class seats.
Apr 15, 2019, 6:57 pm
#264
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, NSW Australia
Posts: 895
no signs of letting up anytime soon
90 people on the upgrade UA257 DEN-SFO tonight (a Monday)
85 on the list tonight for UA257 Tuesday April 23
Earlier on the 737-800 UA737 (ironically) at 17:21 there were 56 on the u/g list
And over at gate 38 UA1613 at 18:55
a 777 to LAX there are only a meagre 43 on the u/g list
85 on the list tonight for UA257 Tuesday April 23
Earlier on the 737-800 UA737 (ironically) at 17:21 there were 56 on the u/g list
And over at gate 38 UA1613 at 18:55
a 777 to LAX there are only a meagre 43 on the u/g list
Last edited by Aspen; Apr 23, 2019 at 6:44 pm
Aug 18, 2019, 3:09 pm
#265
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 403
Upgrade List: Nearly 40% of IAD - LAX Passengers on #2154 Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning's 8:15 IAD - LAX shows 56 out of 150 possible on upgrade list.
When I check in (hoping for a better Y seat to open up) that will be 57/150 = 38%
And it will likely go higher.
I know upgrade lists get long, but 40% of a flight?
When I check in (hoping for a better Y seat to open up) that will be 57/150 = 38%
And it will likely go higher.
I know upgrade lists get long, but 40% of a flight?
Aug 18, 2019, 3:42 pm
#266
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Location: SFO
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Hub to Hub, Monday morning -- not surprized and likely to get higher. Wait for BG1.
Aug 18, 2019, 4:16 pm
#267
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Aug 19, 2019, 6:11 am
#268
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: ORD | LGA | 2E
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On a percentage basis, the Monday morning 6AM ORD <> LGA flights are consistently 60%+, depending on time of year can be much higher.
Aug 29, 2019, 7:41 am
#270
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Not the longest I've ever seen by was very surprised to see 71 passengers on the UG list for an A319 on a Wednesday evening from DFW > ORD last night. I was booked on a D fare but one upgrade did clear into 1F. I would never have thought there would be that many elites on a a non-hub-hub route, especially in AA's home.