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Old May 11, 2012 | 4:52 pm
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Originally Posted by SFO_FT
Made a SDC to a booking. To get the R space on the new flight, the agent had to cancel and redeposit the original SWU and then pull a new one. All done <24h from flight departure. I thought UA was telling us that "the system" doesn't allow for this?
You can't waitlist inside 24 hours. Confirming inside 24 hours is fine so long as the SWU was pulled at that time.

Sounds like you confirmed inside the 24, right?
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