Had that already in the general question thread with no answer, so I think I will post this here...

I have an international itinerary that has me fly Europe-US1-South America-US2 with no stop exceeding three hours before reaching US2. When looking up my itinerary online I currently see this part of the ticket listed as "Europe to US2", and I am currently offered to upgrade this with Miles&copay at the normal Europe to US rate. However strictly looking at the fare, it is actually a ticket Europe to South America with a stopover (permitted by the underlying fare) in US2.

I will make 1K well before this flight, so I probably want to use one of my GPUs on this itinerary (booked in V) - I assume that when they become available in my account I will be able to add just one GPU to that itinerary as the system sees US2 as my destination and everything in between as connections on the way there (ignoring the fare).

But what will happen if I want to gift a GPU to my traveling-companion who is on a separate reservation - I think I will need to call for this and speak to an agent to get this accomplished. So what is your estimate: Will that agent then require one GPU for the whole itinerary or will they want to pull two? And what would be the actual rules in this case?

Thanks for your input!

Greetings - Dirk