Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Difficult to use, requiring flexibility and perhaps a little nailbiting? Sure...but useless? No.
Redeemed two RPUs for the other half a couple weeks ago - ONT/DEN/ONT cleared the RPU at booking, DEN/FLL/DEN were both battlefield upgrades. Just redeemed a GPU SFO-HKG in July - needed to be flexible with the date, but got it worked out and cleared at booking.
A month ago redeemed a GPU at booking for Mrs. for FRA/EWR in June, but the outbound EWR/TXL in May is still waitlisted. If we were flexible and left two days earlier, GPU was and still is available, however my paid fare would have been $2k higher.