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Re:The Madness of Airline Élite Status by ryanlol on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:19PM (#11160467)
20%? What airline you're with, for "elite" statuses it's generally less than 20% of the flights that do not get upgraded. Obviously depends on availability on the specific flights though.
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Re:The Madness of Airline Élite Status by ropiku on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:25PM (#11162012)
On a long haul international flight ? I doubt it. It's hard to find even mile redemption availability.
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Re:The Madness of Airline Élite Status by lnanek2 on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @08:23PM (#11163787)
Depends on what you fly. I always used to fly first flight out of Newark preferentially compared to anything else out of Newark/LGA/JFK simply because I always got upgraded without fail. First flight out of Newark leaves before the mass transit gets running. So you can game the system to make sure there are seats to be upgraded to.
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