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Mar 18, 2013 | 3:32 pm

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JNelson113

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Originally Posted by skipmnyc

I was waitlisted with a GPU last week from MUC-EWR. J was at 9 the entire week prior, dwindling down to J=4 at OLCI. There were no offers to buy-up leading up to and after OLCI. Needless to say by the time I got the gate, J was booked full. I suspect that others were taking a buy up offer. So my question is, once you've applied a GPU do you lose the chance to buy up anyway? If it was a reasonable deal, I would have done it. But I had no way to know, except maybe to cancel my GPU. Has anyone had this experience?

You do not lose the chance. I was waitlisted with a GPU from HKG-EWR last year and was offered the $739 or so upgrade. Took it because I looked unlikely to clear.