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May 3, 2013 | 12:16 pm

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Originally Posted by FlightNurse

Z fare Heavily discounted Business Class - CANNOT (officially) be upgraded using either miles or SWU's or Sales Dept upgrade certificates. I beleive the Z fare is a YUP fare.

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Originally Posted by chinatraderjmr

Z fares can most certainly be upgraded to O using sales upgrades. You can't upgrade from Z using GPU's, miles but I have upgraded plenty of intl Z class tkts using sales upgrades. The only caveat is the sales manager must do it for you as your right. The computer and/or CS will say its not upgradable

You are both right that Z fares cannot be upgraded with SWUs, but they absolutely can be upgraded with miles.

http://www.united.com/web/en-US/cont...2012-03-03.pdf

(See p. 5)

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