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Dec 23, 2011 | 6:21 pm

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Boogie711

Join Date: Mar 2011

Location: Kitchener, ON, Canada

Programs: UA 1K

Posts: 1,266

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Originally Posted by tedstriker2010

Thanks, but my impression is that this deals more with complimentary upgrades, not with the way priority is determined when you are entitled to get one. Is there perhaps some other more general chart explaining the rules? There is nothing like that on AC.

Thanks again.

There's not a lot to explain.

If you're Global Services, 120 hours before the flight, the system sweeps. If there's an available seat, you get it. 1K is 100 hours. Premier Executive, 72 hours. Premier, 48 hours.

UA staff don't deadhead in First - they save those seats for their elites. I'm sure someone will bring up a "Oh yeah, I saw a UA staffer in first" story, but for the most part, that's all there is to it.

They've tweaked it for 2012 because they've incorporated that 75k Platinum level now. A quick search through the United Forum will bring up all sorts of discussion about it.

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