Originally Posted by RockinRon

Suggestions on upgrading HNL-IAH for a family of 7? We are flying home from spring break on UA 252 (as are a lot of people!) and I am looking for options to upgrade to C short of a $2300 per person fee. Here's what I have looked at:

I have 6 GPUs and 3 RPUs, but since we are a record of 7, neither the web nor the 1K desk can "pool" them. We'd have to split the record and with 5 minors I'd rather not. Not to mention, waitlist only.

Miles + $$$ is $425 plus 30,000 per person. I'm willing to do that but need to transfer miles from at least one account to meet the 210k needed. Transferring miles is not cheap but could be an option. This is waitlist only as well so could be a wasted effort.

I am wondering if it'll all be for naught as there are not confirmed seats and waitlists.

Am I missing anything? I figured the collective wisdom here would be a good place to check.