Just booked PP for IAH > LAX > NRT, and looking at using miles to get on the Polaris waitlist. I have a few questions I couldn't find the answer to:
- Is status at the time of booking taken into account? I assume not, but thought I'd ask. Will be going down to silver at end of the month.
- If I'm silver and my companion has no status, but I request the upgrades, will we be next to each other in the priority list?
- How does turning down an upgrade go? If I get upgraded a week before but he doesn't, can we wait it out without losing our PP seats next to each other? At what point is my previous seat gone? We'd like to only do it if we both get it, but unsure how that works logistically---and don't want to end up where we somehow lose access to the PP seats we currently have due to the upgrades not coming in at the same time.
- If you get on the upgrade list, can you still see a cash option for upgrading? Right now, the upgrade cabin > upgrade by money screen says "no upgrade available," but when I look at the seat map, it shows that I can pick a Polaris seat for $$$$. Will this seat-change to Polaris for cash option remain available? I'm about 9 weeks out from the trip and would like to keep monitoring this option. There's 24 Polaris seats open still, so it feels like a decent number but not a lot?
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