WP requesting U award seat to be released

[ermen]

Thinking of trying to call up WP Desk to try to get some seats released SIN-LHR but wanted to confirm some facts here -
Understand that normally, a WP can request a U award seat in business to be released only if there is I class available?

 

[serfty]

Thinking of trying to call up WP Desk to try to get some seats released SIN-LHR but wanted to confirm some facts here -
Understand that normally, a WP can request a U award seat in business to be released only if there is I class available?

Not sure about that as a hard and fast rule - I have been unable to get a seat released when a flight was showing I9.

However, I have been able to get an additional seat released when I was seeing I9 U1 (I needed U2).

 

[MarcB]

Not U class, but similar to serfty i was able to get an extra Z seat released when only Z1 was showing...I needed 2. From what I can gather, all they do when you call is create the booking in the class you want and then they submit it (like a waitlist I guess). The system then either confirms the allocation or it doesn't. So no harm in asking regardless of what availability is showing as it's pretty fluid.

 

[trippin_the_rift]

From my experience it has nothing to do with purely I, U, J or D availability, but a mix of actual (I/C/D/J) and historical trends for that flight at that time of year.

I've had flights with I9 where they declined a request to open a U seat, yet another flight which was J4 I0 U0 and the seat was released.