GoAmtrak

Had a positive experience with same-day GPU usage. EWR-SFO was booked 16/20 in F when I OLCId to #1 on the waitlist, eventually slipping further until I was #3 on the list with 19/20 booked. (I do believe that higher-yield pax are stereotypically busy folks and tend to check in later.)

Went to the UC at roughly T-90 minutes and asked if I'd have a higher position by applying a GPU. Inventory must have been F1R1 (I hadn't checked), but within 30 seconds the agent was able to confirm me into the last F seat. Well worth the GPU given that I have no paid overseas travel this year. ^

B6UA

I'm glad to hear other people are using GPUs on domestic flights. I've been debating recently about using some of my extra GPUs (expire 01/15) vs RPUs (expire 01/16) on PHL-SFO just because I have no intl travel planned before January.

Right now I'm leaning towards burning a GPU. Especially because two of them came back after I didn't clear HKG-SFO.

JVPhoto

I used a GPU for a p.s. flight as well because it would expire and all my other INTNL travel the remainder of the year has cleared/booked in J/F.

nova08

I have a question with using GPUs on Int'l routings with 2 paxs on the PNR that I didn't quite find in this thread or the PNR splitting threads. My companion an I are waitlisted with GPUs on EWR-LHR as well as IAH-PHL (as part of AMS-IAH-PHL).

Is there an issue with having 2 paxs on the PNR where if R goes from R0>1 it will bypass us because we are 2. Is it worth splitting proactively?

Kacee

Yes. If it goes R1 you will be skipped. You should split, and ask to have record notated that you are traveling together (in case of rebooking for IRROPS, schedule change, etc.)

mherdeg

My wife and I booked identical reservations LHR-EWR-BOS // BOS-EWR-LIS. Her reservation was booked and ticketed and a GPU was applied by phone to waitlist an upgrade; then, a few hours later, I booked and ticketed the same trip and applied GPUs online to waitlist an upgrade.

We ended up both waitlisting BOS-EWR-LIS.

Last night at 0454 my wife got an e-mail saying her BOS-EWR waitlist cleared (leaving EWR-LIS waitlisted).

Last night at 0551 I got an e-mail saying my EWR-LIS waitlist cleared (leaving BOS-EWR waitlisted).

How can this happen? Surely one or the other of us would have had higher priority on both waitlisted segments?

Same frequent-flyer status, same fare class, her GPUs on her trip and my GPUs on my trip.

Does the angry red "a modification has been made to your itinerary" that appears after an upgrade clears, requiring an agent to resync the ticket, prevent further waitlisted upgrades from clearing on the same res? If so, maybe we should deliberately not waitlist domestic segments with GPUs…

whatever809

Hi - quick question - couldn't find anything with the search function.

I have a trip tomorrow to which I applied a GPU. Domestic segment cleared but intl' segment most likely won't.

I have found an alternative routing which has R space showing all the way. If I SDC to that at T-24 can an agent clear the upgrade immediately?

(assuming the R space is still showing)

(appears from trawling through the thread that this was possible for an RPU in '13. Does this applies to GPU's as well?)

mherdeg

Yes, can apply upgrade within 24hr if R is available & it will clear immediately.

May be easiest to do this over the phone — have the agent confirm the same-day confirmed change and immediately apply the GPU. Risk is that if the R inventory goes away, you cannot waitlist an upgrade within 24 hrs of travel so you might not be able to get back on the waitlist. (Risk is lower if the intl segment is after a connection and there's still 24 hrs before that flight.)

It's possible to do this even when there are already people on the upgrade waitlist for the new flight — you can SDC and then queue-jump ahead of them by applying an upgrade.

cbrown5294

Is this still possible? Flying Lax-NYC-Europe . I also was considering flying Lax-JFK- EWR-Europe ...does this still apply or will I need to do Lax-EWR?

arisaa

I have a similar question. IAH->EWR and EWR->AUA 15 hours later. I always thought that international layovers had to exceed 24 hours. I wanted to apply 1 RPU but they said it was 12 hours not 24. Can anybody shed some light?

WineCountryUA

I have seen no confirmation since the merger but pmUA allowed
1) up to 12 hours on an international itin for SWUs/GPUs (note mileage upgrades were longer and hold thru a single stopover); and
2) up to 4 hours on a domestic /region 1 only itin.

So if this is still true, a >12 but <24 hours layover will not work.

Some previous threads
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ts-needed.html
and
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ns-thread.html

djohannw

Had that already in the general question thread with no answer, so I think I will post this here...

I have an international itinerary that has me fly Europe-US1-South America-US2 with no stop exceeding three hours before reaching US2. When looking up my itinerary online I currently see this part of the ticket listed as "Europe to US2", and I am currently offered to upgrade this with Miles&copay at the normal Europe to US rate. However strictly looking at the fare, it is actually a ticket Europe to South America with a stopover (permitted by the underlying fare) in US2.

I will make 1K well before this flight, so I probably want to use one of my GPUs on this itinerary (booked in V) - I assume that when they become available in my account I will be able to add just one GPU to that itinerary as the system sees US2 as my destination and everything in between as connections on the way there (ignoring the fare).

But what will happen if I want to gift a GPU to my traveling-companion who is on a separate reservation - I think I will need to call for this and speak to an agent to get this accomplished. So what is your estimate: Will that agent then require one GPU for the whole itinerary or will they want to pull two? And what would be the actual rules in this case?

Thanks for your input!

Greetings - Dirk

Kacee

You can apply your GPU to a different passenger's itinerary online by logging into your account, then searching for the reservation using the PNR and passenger last name. Once you've pulled up the itinerary, click on the "Upgrade Flight" tab to apply the GPU.

In any event, many reports of phone agents applying GPUs successfully to multi-segment reservations so long as within the rules (see WineCountryUA's post, above), so even if you can't do it online you should be able to do it by phone (again, so long as it is within rules).

JVPhoto

Looking at multi-city (doesn't route that way putting in NYC-SIN) the schedule works to go JFK-SFO & SFO-NRT-SIN that have R space...would that just take 1 GPU?

Edit: booked and it all worked with 1 GPU

EmailKid

Easiest way is to look at ALL RESERVATIONS, scroll to the bottom, and that's where you can put it PNR and name @:-)