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Jun 3, 2008 | 7:34 am

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flying_bubba

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Quote:

Originally Posted by KoreanKing

I recently flew SGN-HKG-SFO. I was charged the full 30,000 miles but only got an upgrade from SGN-HKG. United refunded 20,000 miles since I didn't clear the HKG-SFO leg but I had to write to them to get the refund. The system didn't automatically refund. You may have to pay more than 10,000 miles though since SIN-NRT is farther than SGN-HKG.

You only have two options regarding ug'ing with miles for SIN-NRT:

5K miles if Y or B class fares

or

10K miles if you're in M or H

Here's the chart:
http://www.united.com/page/article/0...html#southasia

If they charge you more than that and you don;t get the next segment ug'ed then call UA and get it corrected. Good luck getting the SIN-NRT ug, that's a tough one.

FB