Originally Posted by
RobOnLI
Clearly something is wrong. If you are waitlisted for Premium Plus and the flight is showing RN3 then 3 people should have been cleared. Time to call UA and have your upgrade request removed and then you need to reapply it online and you will clear immediately into PremPlus and still waitlisted for Polaris.
As for spending an additional $300, nobody knows. You will leapfrog anyone on the upgrade list coming from coach except those sponsored by GS PlusPoints. That could move you a couple of notches up the list or it might not move you up at all. You'll literally be throwing $300 out the window if you don't move up on the list. And given RN3 you could be seated in PremPlus right now for zero additional cost.
-RM
Thanks. When I posted earlier it was P8 RN3 now it is this:
I will happily call and do what you said but bottom line is I likely won’t go unless I get into Polaris. This is just for fun to burn pp, see a friend and take a long weekend. I did wonder though what would happen with the change flight buy up to my return mostly because in the past I feel like any time I’ve messed with a reservation I screw it up.
I did learn recently that once you take a buy up upgrade you can’t continue to upgrade (ie if you buy up to PP can’t then still use plus points for Polaris). But didn’t know if that also applied to a change flight refare and also if doing it on one side of a r/t would mess up a cleared upgrade on the other.