Originally Posted by
LordHamster
I regularly use my GPUs to upgrade the wife and kids. My 4 year old and 7 year old always appear near the top of the list along with my wife and myself. I'm a GS so it may be a different mechanism... but it seems that for the purposes of the upgrade, they are getting some preference. But that is ONLY when I travel with them. If they are alone, they languish at the bottom. When they are traveling alone, I usually try to find them a saver business reward.
That said, SFO-SIN might be a VERY tough route to get. You may have better luck with SFO-NRT-SIN
If your wife has your status designation I am not sure why they would be at the bottom without you ,different situation,often I travel on a biz fare and take my youngest who is 15 with me in Y ,paid or points he is auto upgraded with a GPU.