Originally Posted by
birdseye
Airline status won't get you free upgrades on flights to Hawaii either; that only works on flights within the 48 states on a space available basis.
The
possiblity of a free domestic upgrade for elites does include flights to/from Hawaii in UA/CO programs, with the exception of flights from DFW that have CO business/first. (+EWR flights?)
Edit: oops - as noted below I meant IAH CO flights not DFW (had been looking at AA recently, so thought of IAH)