More strange upgrade behavior
Love, love, love...
Looking at "Upgrade your flight" at the new united.com for this coming week's travel. I have an offer to upgrade 1 of 4 segments for a charge of 10,000 miles...others show no availability. Or, I could click the button at the bottom of the screen and upgrade all available segments (i.e. 1?) for 16,666 miles. ?
Oh - did I mention that the segment I'm offered an upgrade on is booked as paid B? Wait, I thought that in the new system this was supposed to clear w/ top priority, an "instant upgrade"? Maybe full fare + 10,000 miles earns me F on a 40 min flight? Or not? ...???
I've seen a lot of griping about fare trumping status in the new system, but are others seeing fare-based UGs fail in obvious situations like this, too?