Originally Posted by
krvw
That's useful info, thanks.
It's rare that I travel with others except on family vacations, but then I usually go with award tix. But I do have a couple opportunities coming up to sponsor business colleagues on the same flight but not same PNR. That could help for now.
Thanks to all who responded as well. I still wish we had better options for our e500s... Bummer.
Cheers,
1Ken
Just note that the official UA policy is that you are only allowed to support the upgrade of one other person with your e500s that is on the same itinerary as you. This is pretty widely enforced at the phone agent level, in my experience (ie, calling reservations a few days before the flight and letting them know you will be supporting someone else's upgrade using your e500s. They do clear with your status, which is nice, but they won't be able to do OLCI). I've had looser enforcement of the rules at the gate and on flights were there were quite a few empty seats in F.