<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mymiles2go:
The better question is why on earth one would pay $2,900 for a coach RT ticket in one of the lowest fare classes, I'd hate to see a Y fare based on that scale.</font>
I assume that this Z fare is $2900 for a
business class LAX-HKG roundtrip, and the upgrade refers to
C to F rather than Y to C.
So SWUs were originally good for C fares only, and then revised to include D fares -- and now that UA seems to be offering Z fares which are more deeply discounted that D, they may choose to specify the upgradeability.
What's interesting is that
D to F upgrades using miles seem to be acceptable now.
The rules of this Z fare say SWUs year, miles no.
So there's a clear (if rare) way in which SWUs
can be worth more than the equivalent miles.
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