Peatisback

In one of my more wiser moments, I decided to remove a CR1 from a flight 3 days from now that was showing F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 P9 PN9 R9 RN9 IN9 I9 in the hopes of a complimentary upgrade.

A few hours later the flight was zeroed out. Since my CR1 hadn't redeposited, I called in to ask for it back, but also asked if the flight was truly sold out (it was also previously showing Y9 B9 M9)- I was told that the flight had been marked for cargo usage and that the 10 remaining seats in First were blocked off because of this.

I can understand not selling any more seats, but I was surprised to hear that they would specifically block F seats to existing passengers waitlisted for an upgrade. I thought that on mainline aircraft (in this case a sCO 737-800) the weight/balance accounted where people sat, and didn't require moving people around (or blocking seats/preventing people from sitting up front).

I hope that these 10 remaining F seats are allocated for upgraders, and that I am one of them....


EDIT- Oops! I thought I was in the Consolidated United forum- mods please move if needed.

Ari

What route is this flight?

Perhaps you should have left the CR1 in . . .

Peatisback

Yes, I should have.... IAH-DCA

glx

Of course they will be; they need to zero it out otherwise people will go "There's upgrade capacity but not salable capacity?". You'll clear at the gate.

mduell

Depending on the flexibility of the cargo loading you may run into balance issues. If it has to be up front due to dimensions or other factors they need to get the weight out of the front of the airplane.

Peatisback

Flight still had 6 seats blocked during boarding. They pulled a bunch of people up front and cleared them at the last second but apparently overshot and had to send a few people back to Y. In the end there were no empty seats in F, but it was a huge cluster. Thankfully my stupid gamble paid off....

CALMSP

sadly..........whoever you talked to lied to you.