Originally Posted by
justplanenuts
I'm curious how this works. I'm based in CLT (USAir hub), but would see status on United as a more valuable one to have. A lot of flights from CLT fly USAir metal, but are sold as either USAir or United (Same flight). If I were to obtain status on United would I get upgraded on a United (USAir Metal) flight?
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A UA elite will rarely, if ever, get an upgrade on US metal. The only real situation this would happen in is if a flight was overbooked in Y, and all US elites had been upgraded. Then, they would likely start looking at *G, then *S to upgrade to free up economy seats. Also, prehaps in irrops situations, where they would do the same thing if there were lots on standby because of canceled flights due to weather, etc. This would not happen very often at all.