Originally Posted by
Downunder girl
Ahhh you probably grabbed the NC1 I had my eye on, while trying to get my itin sorted for mid Sept
. It was there for about 2 weeks, then as soon as I booked, poof - gone. At that point I had to decided I would split, and apply SWU to Mini DG first, but alas, too late, so then after advice from 1K line, I kept pnr together. I will take your advice as I KNOW you know the SYD USA route very well.
Have you got any data points on your people being on the waitlists for those flights this year? How quickly they cleared, if they were lower than 1K status etc?
Thanks again ^.
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Very low status Premier.
The sponsors' status is what counts 100%.
We have lots of SWU. I rarely used SWU on my flights to OZ,as I have a GD fare which is under $3K. RT.
We used the SWU to upgrade our staff at least oneway.
When they have been on WL usually clears few weeks before. In January at the end of Australian Open, flights cleared well in advance EX: MEL.
1 did not even have a status with UA.
We had flights clear in FEB over Valentine's weekend from OZ to USA 21 days before.
I would not be concern about the WL.
Once again single PNRs will clear faster. We always book our personnel on single PNRs if we intend to upgrade them.