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Old Jun 25, 2017 | 7:40 pm
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Originally Posted by radonc1

What he did, in essence was buy an F ticket by paying the difference between his original fare and the actual F fare. What is even better is that UA will give you the EQDs and bonus EQMs when you do this UG during the original purchase.
I thought this was the case also. I purchased the offer to upgrade to first at time of purchase for a flight last week. I don't care about the EQDs because I have the Explorer card and spend more than 25k. I was counting on the EQMs however to requalify for Gold. My revised receipt showed the additional EQM but after the flight I only got credit for original EQMS.

Last year I always earned the F EQMs. Is this a change this year?
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