<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Jim Phillips:
1) Use a free SWU or Sweet Spot certificate
2) Confirm upgrade on the spot
3) Spend the $300 "service" fee on a nice Christmas or Hanukka gift for someone you like
4) Sit upstairs in a 747
Oh wait this is CO, not UA 
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Oh, am I (as a UA PE & CO Platinum) missing
something?? Wow, when did UA start giving out Sweet Spots & free SWU to anything but 1K's---And all this time, I go on the phone for hours with UA trying to get a cheap international upgradable flight, with generally little or no success? And btw, has UA (over the weekend) upgraded it's dismal F service from EWR on transcons????