Awwww irwell nice smiling and patient...


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On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:00:57 +0000 (UTC), David Pirmann wrote:

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stonej writes:

If a flight is sold out on coach and only a few first class tickets
remain how often do airlines let the first class tickets go for a
coach price? Seems it is better to fill a seat with a paying
customer than to let it sit empty.

Never. The coach section is (usually) oversold anyway; so they'll
upgrade some people out of coach (status FF members, full fare payers,
etc), and then put the overbooked coach buyers into the freed up coach
seats.

We have been upgraded from economy to first class twice without
asking, the first time was from San Francisco to London via
Minneapolis, we had to change at MSP and there was an Air Traffic
Controller's strike about to start in London, in the hurry to get
the plane off to beat the deadline several coach passengers ended
up in First Class, we did get all the benefits that went with it.

The second time was from Rome to New York on TWA, the counter agent
in Rome had just been harrased by some pushy nuns, when she saw
our patient smiling faces she put us in first as a little bonus.