Standby.:1orglaugh

You may or may not get a seat. It is possible to get a first class seat if your on standby. If those are the only seats open and you meet the dress code your in.

I usually fly in coach class, I am not too picky and that's completely fine for me, that's not bad at all and not so expensive.
I flew only once in the first class but it was international 10 hours long flight, but I really don't mind coach class as long as I got back alright:thumbsup

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United you can buy books of upgrade coupons if you are a corp. It comes to about $500 extra round trip to up to first class when you buy a book. Totally worth it.

First class if I can get it with an upgrade or use FF miles. Not worth the cost to me if I have to buy a ticket.

When I was at Sprint, AMX and Delta had a sweet deal - you got triple miles if you flew 1st class, all our tickets were fully upgradable Y tickets AND they would give you miles even on upgraded flights. This was also when Delta would give you 1000 miles for each leg no matter what. I made a LOT of sweet FF miles and flew a lot of 1st class on that deal :)

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