Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
Basic Economy does not generally get advance seat assignment.
Ah, right - well thats certainly an easy explained largest amount of Dark Matter if all i can see is the seat map ;-)
But still not clear of descriptions of similar dark matter for the Polaris seat map.
Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
As GA, was one offered at check-in? After Check-in you may or may not see the offered displayed if waitlisted.
GA ? I did not see any further offers after i check in, but i did do the buy-up during checkin.
Originally Posted by
Kacee
And the people who follow the upgrade list tend to be aware of this option, which is a very big part of why being #1 or 2 on the list with 2 seats available inside of T-24 means less than a 50% chance of actually clearing.
Haha. Right. And its worse if colleagues from other companies even recognize your name on the upgrade list and ask you how you skipped them ;-)
Well, one of the whole points of the exercise is to figure out when/how its important to pay up to PE to get cleared for Polaris. Otherwise i wouldn't much care for paying for PE itself. Exit Row seat in economy is comparable to me (Mr Frugal ;-).
Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
People that had not selected a seat until check-in at the airport and yes this does happen.
People making cash purchased of the upgrade
People SDCing on to the flight
People whose flight plans have been disrupted by irrops
People making last minute ticket purchases
None of the above is unusual or rare and can happen on most flights.
All of the above are reasons UA does not process all the upgrades long before departure.
The seatmap is a poor indicator of the true status. Look (with expert mode) what the J inventory is. Or look just above the waitlist on united.com or app and what the sold seat counts are.
Ok. This is like particle physics. New particles discovered every day ;-)
But thanks a lot - makes a lot of sense. I just read up a bit on SDC and it seems as if there could be folks changing over from the ca. 40? minutes earlier flight to HND where the prices where already higher, so moving to NRT might have given them Polaris without a price hike.
Originally Posted by
RK23
I upgraded my brother from SFO-TPE for $1599 last fall. PE to J and into the P inventory. He was on the MUA list and definitely wasn't going to make the cut. But it showed up on the upgrade list as if he cleared it. Curious if you knew what the upgrade cost was OP.
I've heard it has been as low as $600 from PE to J on the West Coast to Asia flights.
I've never tried to upgrade solely with money into Polaris. That would be interesting to know how well that works. I always used Miles+Money so far. In this case it did add up quite a bit.
I think it was $400 plsu 20k mile ? For the Polaris upgrade and then $575 for the checkin updade to PE. But they did sell on the web page Polaris at the end for $17k if i remember corretly. Mid-Week. Maybetime to buy United Stock instead of tickets. On second thought: No ;-)