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Old Mar 26, 2018, 12:12 pm
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fightingsioux09
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by jsloan
I don't see any pictures, but UA has had the ability to search for mile+cash upgrades for a long time. As you say, it's in the advanced search, and you're likely to find a lot more "waitlisted" results than you will "upgrade available."
You're right that you will probably see more waitlisted than anything, but those are usually because of a domestic segment that doesn't have R inventory open so the default icon will show "waitlist" even though the longer Polaris segment might be instant upgrade. If you only searched for the longer international segment you might see that same flight with a green icon instead of yellow.

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