Originally Posted by
Kacee
There is no "12 hour connection rule." On an international itinerary, anything under 24 hours is a connection, not a stopover.
Are you sure of this? I mean you'd know more than me for sure but twice for situations like this I've found out the hard way that my bags won't/didn't get tagged through to my final destination and I've had to go back to the airport to grab my check-in bags, or they wouldn't issue BPs in my originating city for the second flight(not that that mattered because mobile BPs) and the like. I even called UA on this one and they said they have to let my bags out because I'm stopping over even though the connecting is fully during the day. Also in that case how come LAX-EWR and EWR-BOM won't process as a single PlusPoints transaction and processes as two separate upgrades whereas the return with a 9-hour layover (same family visit reason), one GS 30 PlusPoint application has waitlisted me all the way through back to SF? I'm genuinely curious for when I do this in the future. After all these years looks like I'm still learning more about my most traveled airline
Edit: I don't want to go too off topic from this thread so leave it at this, but definitely a learning point for me
Originally Posted by
jsloan
If the list is displaying properly -- that's a big if -- then that person likely is on a GS-sponsored upgrade, or they wouldn't be first on the list. However, nothing would really surprise me, because I don't think the lists that are currently being surfaced are accurate enough to be able to make that kind of proclamation.
here's that list in case you wanted to see, but I'm definitely agreeing with you and not taking it at face value. Just a potential starting point:
