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Old Oct 26, 2009 | 11:18 am
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Originally Posted by Ericka
OK, I'm confused. Mr. Ericka and I are booked on an IAD-FCO flight on Friday. I spoke to a 1k agent about our upgrade chances today and was told they are not great as there are 3 biz seats available and we are currently about 4-5 on the priority waitlist. But when I check on standard award availability, .bomb is willing to book two biz awards for me on these flights.

So.....If there are standard awards available, wouldn't the upgrade waitlists start filling the biz seats? Or is this something that doesn't start to happen until later?

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Edit: Actually, .bomb will let me book up to 6 standard biz awards on the flights. What's up with that?
That is XC availability; you are looking for NF. Sadly, these are two different inventory buckets. If you have "Advanced Mode" turned on in your UA.com profile, you can view NC availability by hovering over the flight info link while during award searches.
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