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Old Mar 17, 2024 | 11:08 pm
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Originally Posted by tairantei
Hi I’m just looking into this and
wanted to know, if I booked a United ticketed flight but am Airnz star alliance gold would I do the request for upgrade through airnz?
or do I have to buy the ticket through airnz to be able to upgrade the star alliance flight?
Your star alliance status is not relevant. If you wish to upgrade an eligible UA flight through the star alliance upgrade process you would request via NZ

Originally Posted by raznz
you'd be doing it in United's *A Upgrade portal since that's the ticket issuer. (ie. you're trying to upgrade one of your legs that is operated by another *A airline that is not United)

and just in case i misunderstood, if you're trying to upgrade a united ticketed flight on a unitec operated flight, you wouldn't use *A Upgrade.
if you wanted to use Airpoints to do a *A upgrade, then you would need to book with NZ
Your last sentence is not clear (need to book the flight on UA and the upgrade on NZ)
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