US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Can you upgrade a voucher?

I was returning home yesterday (ATL-CLT-BOS), and at CLT they were looking for volunteers. Levae 30 minutes later and fly CLT-DCA-BOS. In exchange I received a free ticket to be used in the continental us within 1 year.

When I use the voucher, what inventory do they pull it from? Can I use NAUs, do I have to use SWUs or are they not upgradeable at all?

If anyone sees a thread discussing, please let me know, I couldn't find one.

These are booked in /Z/ class and are not upgradeable by any means, for any status.

You should also be aware there are other threads which state that *some* agents will give you a $200 voucher in lieu of the free RT voucher. By using that towards a trip and paying the small difference in cash, the trip is now 1) upgradeable and 2) awards dividend miles. I have never done this but intend to ask in the future when bumped voluntarily. What I have done in the past is foist my Z class vouchers off on the wife and kids and fly on a revenue ticket so I get the miles.

Also, even though both award travel and voucher travel are pulled from Z inventory, the reservation can be held for 30 days before ticketing on a voucher but only 7 days for award travel. Otherwise it is the same which means if there are no award seats there are no voucher seats, again a possible advantage to the "$200 off a $249 fare" scenario.

I asked for a $200 voucher in December when I was bumped voluntarily off of a flight. The PIT agent seemed confused at my request and told me that only the shuttle and express flights give dollar vouchers.

[This message has been edited by Alysia (edited 02-24-2002).]

US res agents seem to be incredibly restrictive on those "Round Trip Flight Credits". I requested an extra connection to do some business at the US Club in DCA and CLE and tried 5 times until an agent finally put me on the flights, agreeing that it was on the legal routing from SFO-LGA. I've gotten them to plan out the flights, only to default and say abrubptly- "Oh, you're on a RTFC" or "I bet you're on a RTFC right??!"

Oh well...free travel is free travel. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif