Originally Posted by
Kacee
Look, I accept this was inadvertent on your part, but there are still agents at UA (and likely every other airline) who take some pleasure in enforcing the rules against passengers. That's why we have unwritten rules about what not to do when you've gotten an exception. There used to an agent at the SFO GFL who was renowned for auditing F tickets of passengers who used the lounge . . . so the unwritten rule was, if there's anything at all funky about your F ticket, DO NOT USE THE SFO GFL.
yeah, too bad for the OP, but United was following rules. The schedule change I can see them make an exception, but beyond that ... not so much. If you want to get the last ticket back, you might get lucky because you had an issued ticket. Making another change ... that won't happen.
GFL was a nono for sure when getting into the F cabin through e.g. irops.