Originally Posted by
pon18n
For some reason, the united website would not allow me to apply GPU on the returning flight (anybody know why that might be?).
Probably, precisely what you're running into.
Originally Posted by
pon18n
I called in the desk to apply upgrade telling them I only want to upgrade one. The agent told me the only way that's possible is splitting the ticket. I told her that splitting the ticket would bump my wife's priority down and she argued with me that that wasn't the case.
This is a bit of a gray area. There are some reports that the PNR will retain the priority it had when it was first created; there are others that make it seem that it isn't the case. I don't see a downside to waiting until after the outbound is flown to touch the return, unless you needed the other instrument in the meantime.