Originally Posted by
Kacee
It's hit or miss. Sometimes an upgrade will be offered for sale immediately after booking, sometimes at check-in, and sometimes not at all. Presumably there's a rationale on the UA side, but on the consumer side it's not transparent at all.
Thank you all for the comments! This flight being the AC booked but in United app after that instantly says no upgrades. I have a Mileage plus flight in June that does offer upgrades but it’s international on a 757 and not the “honeymoon we never took” so I don’t care about that.
Fingers crossed on the 787-8 staying. I wouldn’t mind an 11th hour 787-9 swap in for the SFO-PPT leg to vastly increase the Polaris seats.