Originally Posted by
sbm12
Not that I know of, but I don't think it will do what you want anyways. If you need to be on a V fare all the way through then just look for that. Otherwise you're going to be buying a W fare USA-FRA and then a V fare FRA-wherever. The system would add those two numbers together to come up with the final fare. My guess is that just buying a V fare USA-Wherever would be better.
It would still require the additional GPU for the LH segment, but the fare should be better.
It's counter-intuitive, but a UA W segment connecting to an LH V segment often prices out at the UA W fare for the whole trip. I've done that and it really does work, but of course SHARES will never offer you that on its own. There are more perfectly legal ways to construct cheaper tickets that you can do in native SHARES and not on the web site, so a call to an agent is required.
By the way, I had one recent case where doing all V wouldn't even work because a third partner on the trip had W, but no V availability. The web site tried to force it all into Q, for an extra $700 above what I ended up paying. I wonder how often people overpay like this.
Originally Posted by
BH62
Beautiful! However, there's another situation that may affect some, viz, when two people w/ status are on the same PNR(Confirmation No.) & want to be upgraded. In our instance, the two of us (Mr/Ms BH) are both 1K & have the appropriate number of SWU/GPUs in our individual accounts. In the PMUA days, a call to the 1K desk sufficed, just take the instruments from each account, ta da! For an international flight booked just recently, pretty much followed the upgradeable booking protocol outlined above, but found no upgrade button when all was done. But in any case, had to call the 1K desk (whatever it is now) to apply the instruments (Grease Monkey script showed that there were R's available). After minimal hold time, explained to the agent what I wanted to do. Apparently not so simple: needed PINs for each account, then a lot of clicking in the background plus several hold times trying to ignore the over-&-over commercials (I was on speaker phone & doing my own work, so not too much time wasted). Eventually (maybe a half hour total) it was done. BUT the confirmation had to be split in two in order access the GPUs individually. So now we have 2 "PNR"s, but are seated together in C. I'll chalk this up to system unfamiliarity of both me & agent. Surely there has to be a better way to do this; shudder at the thought of having to go thru all of this for future bookings.
If you're doing a round trip and using an equal number of upgrades, you could always have one of you apply the upgrades on the outbound and the other on the return, thereby saving the call.