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Mar 14, 2012, 4:46 pm

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Originally Posted by thach1ef

Upgrade rates are based on upgrade rules.

Unfortunately the new UA has tossed the published UG rule book (or at least can't get its own systems to enforce it):

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan-

Until takeoff yesterday on IAD-SFO, while I was changing seats, I was offered a $149 buy-up despite purchasing a W fare. Then they gave my upgrade to someone else.

Load of crap.

I just asked someone else who flew SFO-IAD on a W and got a $99 offer to post in this thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...iscussion.html

V to M (no W currently published) buy-up one way is ~$275, so yours is another TOD

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