I'm a new UA 1K and just got my GPUs.

I had to book a trip ORD-LHR through Egencia (work mandated system) and got a K class fare out of it which isn't eligible to use GPUs on. Oh well, lesson learned.

Doing some research, from what I can tell the only fare classes that aren't F or J that are eligible to burn GPUs on are Y,B,M,E,U,H,Q,V,W. With that in mind, I was looking at booking a ORD-NRT with those fare classes and basically the fares were $600 more than the same flight on a K fare.

My question is: are you folks booking these higher fares to use your GPUs, or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance!