Glen,

Interesting question about the India "stopover" rule. I agree with Rudi...it is a legal connection, so I'd imagine that UA would hold you to it. But you're on a roll of sorts with UA as of late...so maybe you can work some magic to have the rules bent by about 26 hours or so!

I owe PremEx several beers should we ever cross paths. I had no idea that I could upgrade flights using SWUs BEFORE the reservation was booked AND paid for. I just made two reservations for this Spring and upgraded all of the overseas segments on UA to F (although they aren't showing any First Suite configs. on any of the routes I booked...not yet, anyhow).

The 1K reservations lady gave me the impression that she was doing me a BIG favor by holding my reservations (in C class...and each ticket was $6,000 +, mind you) for longer than 3 days. Was this because she was holding the upgraded F space for me? Usually you have up until one hour before flight time to ticket a C Class ticket, right?

I'm going to see if I can get these tickets cheaper someplace else...United doesn't understand the term "discount" for int'l Biz Class. Which leads me to another question: how does one book a "D" Class ticket? Is this solely a RTW fare classification, or can I go somewhere and find a nice Biz Class ticket booked in D?