Antipode

The last few pages of this thread are mostly about the aircraft being pulled from service soon (and apparently being leased out). Just a handful of posts above yours is the last date on which N194UA will be used, so it's not a one day thing.

goalie

Unitedcargo is now showing a 47C for UA664 SFO-ORD and UA973 ORD-SFO for both Friday (10/29) & Saturday (10/30). Hoping my confirmed u/g on Saturday sticks....

mahasamatman

But not Sunday. Rats.

goalie

You never know..... <crossing sticks>

camachinist

Thanks for that info. I was on 973 yesterday, N194UA, rocking in the 45mph winds at the gate, and will be on 973 again on Saturday. My NC upgrade yesterday cleared (from a SWU) about 10 hours prior to departure for yesterday's flight and cleared at booking a few week's ago for Saturday's. If you're 973 upper deck on Saturday, I'll be in 15A, facing one way or another, depending on equipment, presuming the UG sticks

gatelouse

Looks like today's UA973(28) is subbed to a 74C too. Will update if I can figure out where N194UA went...

UPDATE: Looks like it sat at SFO today (Thursday). It's scheduled for Friday's UA893 SFO-ICN and Saturday's return UA892 ICN-SFO.

SFOSpiff

Hmm, whaddya know. Unexpected bonus.

Question though: I'm on 973 Friday and it's scheduled to be a 47C. My UDU cleared 3 days ago but given the reduction in C seats, am I risking a downgrade? I'm 1K, but at the lowest possible fare (L).

My seat seems to have changed but the seatmap looks all messed up - I'm pretty sure the main deck C cabin is not 11 seats across.

camachinist

Interesting that, on .bomb, using a standard C award to search, 973 on Friday is still selling C9, D7, Z5 but the correct 47C seat map is showing completely full. F is selling F5 but with only two seats unoccupied on the seat map. F and C seat maps are not showing at all on EF for this flight.

Saturday 973 is still showing the N194UA seat maps as of this post time.

FriendlySkies

I bet you'll be ok. Last time I did 664, we were switched from the old 747 to the 47C. I got my upgrade at the gate, despite having a K fare..

goalie

Have you checked in yet? If not, try checking in and see if you can do it but if not, chances are the swap is going thru as we speak and should process sometime between roughly 10pm and 4am (that's pst as I'm SFO based) tho in my past experience, the swap and seat map has cleared itself up around 2am (again, PST. Also if you're saying the seat map is all messed up, more evidence that the change is going thru now and even tho you are on an "L" fare, remember that the first tiebreaker is status so being a 1k helps a lot in this situation if they need to "cut someone".

Yup-Saturday both in my itin and doing a std award search is still showing the old seating configuration.

FriendlySkies

+1

When we did our MR on 9/11, I found that OLCI opened up around 12:30AM.. Not a clear indication of when your OLCI will open, but it should happen soon.. If anybody was to be downgraded, I bet they would start with the 3P (if any), then 2Ps, 1Ps, and if necessary, 1K.

SFOSpiff

Yeah, that happened to me too last time. I was probably the last upgrade to clear (as a 1P with an S fare), when they were already boarding group 2.

I suspect what happens here is that they only advance upgrade enough people to fill a 47C in case of a swap, then fill the rest at the gate if they need to. Though that time (above), the gate upgrades started with about 15 C seats still available.

That what I'd assume too, but I wondered what might happen if no one below 1K was upgraded, and if there was a 1K on the waitlist with a higher fare than me, would I get bumped down...? I'm guessing not (intentionally) but during IRROPS, things can get messed up, especially if you haven't been assigned a new seat.

Anyway, I went through OCLI and it's the new config seat map. Only one other seat was available, which may mean they're holding some back, or it may mean it's already full.

It'll be nice to take a 47C westbound for a change, since it's a slightly longer flight. Too bad they don't fly this to IAD.

gatelouse

That's been my suspicion as well, given my own travel experiences and following this thread. Hundreds of posts on the thread, and hardly a complaint of a confirmed upgrade lost to a 74C swap on 664/973, and none since the swaps have become commonplace. A few reports of double-upgrades to F, though.

mahasamatman

It worked! ualcargo is now showing 74C for UA973 Sunday.

Now if only our CRJs will magically turn into CR-7s...

goalie

And all 5 of our confirmed upgrades held