The top 5 myths about getting upgraded

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The Captain does make the final decision regarding everything on board the aircraft...

As far as employees getting free upgrades, just because an employee is upgraded at the last minute does not mean the employee didn't pay for that seat. I commute in first class from time to time and I do pay for the seat. The fee is automatically docked out of my pay check.

The only people I've upgraded for free, when there are seats available, are uniformed military personel.

6-01-2009 @ 8:21PM

Brent Schmidt said...

Yup, nearly every time I've flown with orders in hand I've gotten bumped up to FC... happens all the time to Army buddies too, and my younger brother who's also in the Army whenever he's in uniform to fly. :)

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