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Old Dec 8, 2015 | 8:32 pm
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Originally Posted by TravelTheWorld66
I didn't expect it to be easy. I also didn't expect it to be impossible.
It's not "impossible." People who say that about TPAC upgrades are usually not searching correctly and/or haven't done appropriate research in this forum.

Originally Posted by TravelTheWorld66
Does United allocate a certain number of R seats for each flight, and when they're used, that's it?
No.

Originally Posted by TravelTheWorld66
Or do some flights never even get R seats to begin with?
Yes.

Originally Posted by TravelTheWorld66
If it's the first process, it does seem suspicious that there literally isn't one R availability on a random Sunday in March from SGN, routing through anywhere.
Well there's your first problem. Sunday Asia-US is always a difficult upgrade. Probably the toughest day of the week. Nothing suspicious about that (unless you consider UA wanting to actually sell high demand BF seats "suspicious").

Originally Posted by TravelTheWorld66
Do you really believe that everything with United is on the up and up?
That has nothing to do with anything. What I know is I haven't flown Y TPAC since I made 1K, and that's 2 or 3 RTs per year.
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