US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Quick question again on upgrades

If I have 10,000 miles to use for an upgrade on PBI to PHL. I need to turn them into 6 upgrade certificates online and then use 2 of those, right? (I'm not on the full fare so I don't qualify for the 10,000 miles for round trip) I only want to upgrade the oneway at this time.

I believe that is correct.

If the fare is not full Y (or a high priced B or possibly US) you could upgrade the roundtrip with a US20 award (20k miles).

However, as you point out, you only want to upgrade a one way trip. To my knowledge, the only sanctioned way to do this is to convert miles to upgrades, and go that route.

I do know of at least one person who sucessfully passed off "half" of one of the older US20 certs that come in the mail at the gate for a oneway upgrade, but I'm sure it was a "Favor" on the part of the gate agent, and thus is not recommended for general use http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif. YMMV, of course.

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ABTornado,

This works as long as you are a SP, GP or CP. If you have no status then you can only upgrade on Y/B or witht the 20K roundtrip upgrade.

Also the difference between what you suggest and the 20K roundtrip is your way is upgradable at the elite windows and the 20k is upgradable at time of reservation - space permitting.

Yeah I'm a GP member, I'm just not that experienced with upgrades. Thank you. I need to convert my miles to upgrades a number of hours ahead of time, correct?

AB - this is not an answer to your question, but an opinion/observation. Unless you have a particular need for the small amount of extra space you'll get in F on that flight, it is barely worth your miles or your certs. I'm US1, and I fly that route a few times a year with my daughter, so I almost always get upgraded gratis. It's a short flight and you get virtually no "First class" service. I believe we got a sandwich at lunch time, and even that might be gone now, otherwise it's the snack basket. If I were you, I'd save those miles for a longer flight when you'll appeciate it more.

Thanks for the advice. I would normally just fly coach on this trip, but I don't feel like flying seperately from my family. Also I don't find that I used US Air very often for leisure travel so I'm not really concerned about burning my miles. Also due to an error on AMEX's part they just dumped 10,000 miles into my account to make up for it so I figured I'd burn 2 of the 6 upgrades I'll get for this today.

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[This message has been edited by ABTornado (edited 01-19-2003).]