Originally Posted by
MissMiles
I didn't purchase it yet
Its for work travel (routing AMS-LAS) and will have to be purchased through my job's travel site rather than my United account. I'm able to purchase a ticket in Premium Plus but not Polaris (due to costs). I did a flight search using the travel site and I can see the ticket is fare class A in Premium Plus. Unfortunately I dont have any friends with Plus Points, so I think my only option is either a MileagePlus upgrade or an upgrade option right before departure thought I'd prefer to secure the upgrade sooner than later.
As long as there is inventory and since its a fare class A ticket, will a MileagePlus upgrade option automatically be available? I feel like I've purchased tickets before but for whatever reason, a MileagePlus upgrade option never appeared. Though those tickets could have been a lower fare class, so I guess I'm just wondering if A will automatically get me the upgrade offer as long as there's availability.
The availability of upgrade offers is not dependent on the fare bucket. You could get an upgrade offer with G/K fare buckets, which are the lowest buckets in economy cabin.
There is no difference between upgrade offers at booking, or anytime before booking. Amounts may change, but they are all considered buyup offers.
Even without PlusPoints, you can submit an upgrade request with miles. If there are no positive upgrade space (different from buyup offers above), you would be waitlisted, which can clear at any time up until departure, or not clear.
Going westbound is generally a wholly day flight, so some people skip the lie flat option.