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dcsnowwake Nov 15, 2011 11:12 am
e+ sold out thread
 
If there is not a thread already on this, well lets start one.
I am looking at lots of flights coming up, soo many flights are sold out in E+ ALREADY! this is just insane now, and I thought the upgrade lsists were bad.

12/2/11 DCA-DEN UA815

SEA1K4EVR Nov 15, 2011 11:16 am
never mind.. note OP you put 2012 as your date...

dcsnowwake Nov 15, 2011 11:18 am
Originally Posted by SEA1K4EVR (Post 17454528)
never mind.. note OP you put 2012 as your date...
actually, I screw up I ment end of 2011 into 2012

Often1 Nov 15, 2011 11:20 am
Originally Posted by dcsnowwake (Post 17454503)
If there is not a thread already on this, well lets start one.
I am looking at lots of flights coming up, soo many flights are sold out in E+ ALREADY! this is just insane now, and I thought the upgrade lsists were bad.

12/2/11 DCA-DEN UA815
If you are looking at seat maps on UA.com, that doesn't mean much. More likely is that UA is blocking a lot more E+ seats in advance of the new MP policy to avoid the unpleasantness of shifting people who selected E+ back to E- when they don't qualify.

SEA1K4EVR Nov 15, 2011 11:29 am
Originally Posted by Often1 (Post 17454560)
If you are looking at seat maps on UA.com, that doesn't mean much. More likely is that UA is blocking a lot more E+ seats in advance of the new MP policy to avoid the unpleasantness of shifting people who selected E+ back to E- when they don't qualify.
Nah... the OP is right, E+ just happens to be completely full on that flight. UA does not block any E+ seats on 757's.

Robert Nov 15, 2011 11:35 am
Originally Posted by SEA1K4EVR (Post 17454600)
Nah... the OP is right, E+ just happens to be completely full on that flight. UA does not block any E+ seats on 757's.
Perhaps, but the seat map for ORD-DEN, flight 909 on 12/2/11 is also showing full in E+ despite plenty of seats available in E-. Maybe there are a TON of elites headed to DEN on that particular day?

dcsnowwake Nov 15, 2011 12:43 pm
yuck row 32 for me....havent been that far as an elite ever...this is crazy

ChinaShrek Nov 15, 2011 12:54 pm
When will 2Ps no longer be able to select E+ at time of purchase? January 1?

FriendlySkies Nov 15, 2011 1:10 pm
Originally Posted by dcsnowwake (Post 17455119)
yuck row 32 for me....havent been that far as an elite ever...this is crazy
Is F already full? There's always the possibility of people being upgraded out of E+ into F. People might also change flights, etc..

Joshua Nov 15, 2011 1:29 pm
I neurotically check ELR/E+ seat maps starting at 120 hours on UA or around 5 days on CO to try to jump into seats that open up when upgrades happen.

WIRunner Nov 15, 2011 1:45 pm
I can't say that this is all that uncommon. There have been multiple instances in the past where I'd have wanted to take a particular flight for time reasons and can't because the flight is sold out (in both Y and F).

Hey, it happens, some flights just sell out.

FiveMileFinal Nov 15, 2011 2:26 pm
Originally Posted by dcsnowwake (Post 17455119)
yuck row 32 for me....havent been that far as an elite ever...this is crazy
I was gonna have to sit in 38F (!!!) on yesterday's UA 552 SFO-DEN until my CR1 dropped...! I bought the ticket a month ago.

United is filling planes, don't get it twisted...

emanon256 Nov 15, 2011 3:37 pm
I started a thread on this very topic last year. Once they started selling E+ at any time rather than just at check in, I think a lot of people started buying it. It stinks for us elites. But UA is making more money. Still stinks for us.

Now the harder question, E+ middle or E- aisle?

vt2k Nov 15, 2011 4:16 pm
Originally Posted by dcsnowwake (Post 17454503)
If there is not a thread already on this, well lets start one.
I am looking at lots of flights coming up, soo many flights are sold out in E+ ALREADY! this is just insane now, and I thought the upgrade lsists were bad.

12/2/11 DCA-DEN UA815
Weird. E+ shows completely full but there are still T fares (cheap!) for this flight:

[KVS Availability Tool 6.7.0/Diamond - Sabre: Availability/FS/US]
Code:
DCA  Washington Ronald Reagan National DC US [KDCA]
DEN  Denver Intl CO US [KDEN]
FRI  02 Dec 2011

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -----------------------------------------------------------
UA        815    DCA  17:22    DEN  19:35    752      F9 A9 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T8 L0 K0 G0
On the other side of the coin, there are plenty of F seats available, which could like be gobbled up by elites via UDU:

[KVS Availability Tool 6.7.0/Diamond - Amadeus Seat Map: 02 Dec 2011/UA 815/DCA-DEN/752/F-First]
Code:
    A  B    |  E  F   
 1  +  +        +  +   
 2  +  -        -  -   
 3  +  -        +  +   
 4  +  -        +  +   
 5  +  +        +  +   
 6  +  +        -  -   

[+] Available    [W] Wing      [L] Lavatory 
[-] Unavailable  [E] Exit Row  [U] Upper Deck

mahasamatman Nov 15, 2011 4:19 pm
Originally Posted by vt2k (Post 17456498)
Weird. E+ shows completely full but there are still T fares (cheap!) for this flight
Why is that weird? There's still lots of E- available.


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