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Dec 23, 2017 | 5:39 pm

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Howard

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Originally Posted by bocastephen

Did you get your question resolved? I'm about to do the same thing - 6hr flight, GPU upgrade pending, so I want to book an award seat to block the middle in my exit row, but it's only for one segment of my itinerary so I believe they need to book it as a separate record, but not sure how to handle check-in, boarding passes, etc or how the seat will show as "boarded" once I board with my primary boarding pass.

I still can't view the EXST reservation online, but I had an agent at the United Club print out the EXST itinerary, and everything looked OK. Like you, I did it this way because I have RPUs pending in both directions, but if they don't clear, at least I'll have the extra middle seat in E+.

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