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They already limit the number of point-only seat sales and upgrades on most flights, my various United point schemes will get me "upgrade waitlisted" on flights
by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
They already limit the number of point-only seat sales and upgrades on most flights, my various United point schemes will get me "upgrade waitlisted" on flights with 20 empty seats left in first/business until sometimes the day of departure as they try to get cash payments instead. Maybe it's better if you're in the magical invite-only programs but even at 1K, their top regular-people loyalty tier (which is something like 15000 USD in flights each year) it's gotten pretty bad.
How many point-only seats they'll sell seems more variable but I've seen the rates jump from like 35k miles to 75k miles for the same seats for no apparent reason on flights.