Originally Posted by
channa
UA does buy-ups too, but only when all upgrade requests have been accommodated.
Things are changing at UA, although as far as I know it has not been officially acknowledged.
There has been all sorts of anectodal evidence of this and I witnessed it first hand last month. As a 1K attempting to use a SWU, I was bypassed by several pax who took advantage of a buy-up offer. Agents were very clear that this is happening.