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Old May 29, 2012 | 12:00 pm
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SFOFastAir
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Originally Posted by Seat 1F
IMHO UA should mirror the AA policy and only grant UDU to 1K and GS flyers. Everyone else would need to buy and upgrade with cash, miles, or some accumulated certificates. Bring some common sense back into the system.
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Originally Posted by aero0729
Believe it or not...your idea would actually hurt 1Ks wanting to upgrade. If this forces more lower tier elites to use miles because they do not want to buy e500s, they would actually JUMP 1Ks on the upgrade list. Also, it is the 1Ks complaining the most about upgrades (I am actually fine with my %) I do not see how making those lower than 1Ks use e500s would change how many 1Ks get upgraded if 1Ks still are on UDU.
I believe that when pmUA had the e500 scheme UG with miles and UG with e500 were of equivalent rank once you were on the DM at the airport. The advantage with using miles was you got the UG at time of booking if UG seats were in the inventory.
Last edited by iluv2fly; May 29, 2012 at 12:37 pm Reason: merge
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