Originally Posted by
sapguy
Wife & me will be on UA 179, EWR-HKG, tomorrow Friday 11/16/2018 - we are both 1K on W fares, & using GPUs.
Wife is
#2 & yours truly is
#3 on the UG list.
UA app says that J is booked full (all 50 seats), & 25 have already checked in.
What are our chances?
EPILOGUE: we sat in E+.
The flight was very full and left almost 1 hour late.
Weekends are bad days for the upgrades. It's not so easy to book other days when flying for work or limited vacation days but lately I have been trying to fly my long haul international trips on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. I have been more successful with my upgrades. Even my wife manages to upgrade as a Platinum on her own PNR on those days.