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Old Dec 30, 2012, 2:40 pm
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Originally Posted by manneca
The only "free" international upgrades on UA come with the system wide upgrades (I think they have a new name) which you get as a 1K. The exception is some international flights mainly to South and Central America and the Caribbean. My experience with the SWUs this year is that I got 4 upgrades out of the many I tried for.
They are not free. You have to buy more expensive fare classes to redeem them. TATL, it's about $150-200 more each way.
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