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Mar 2, 2019, 3:13 pm

#16

SFOPeter

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I couple of times I have seen U and A avail, bought the U, and then seen both the U and A immediately disappear.

Mar 2, 2019, 3:26 pm

#17

flytoeat

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CDKing

I'm pretty sure A is still a subset of U though so U1 A1 = only 1 F seat available for award or upgrade. For all we know an additional U seat was released. I've never seen A1 U0

This used to be correct, but I've seen quite a bit of A1 or A2 with U0 recently.

Mar 2, 2019, 5:58 pm

#18

dayone

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Quote:

Originally Posted by flytoeat

This used to be correct, but I've seen quite a bit of A1 or A2 with U0 recently.

I noticed this too, and it's the opposite of what I used to see (e.g., A0, U1).

Mar 2, 2019, 8:31 pm

#19

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Thanks for all the replies so far! Greatly appreciated... This is truly a case of YMMV. LOL. But it looks like A and U from some recent reports are not conflicting with one another. Of course with F4 that's the scary piece... And my mileage may vary.

Mar 3, 2019, 1:27 am

#20

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Just booked again some flights... A went away but U remained.

Mar 3, 2019, 9:47 am

#21

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Update

Just wanted to update all the flight I was looking at went F2 D2 P0 I0 U1 A1. Then went F2 D2 P0 I0 U0 A0 within a couple of hours. (some data points too I suppose)

Points posted but too late by a few hours as Murphy's law goes. Decided to go a day earlier and was able to secure 2 U spaces.

I've learned a lot this week on AS from FT as I rarely fly AS and have learned some valuable things with points and upgrades pertaining to Mileage Plan.. If all goes well in J I will be leaning more towards AS and less towards UA...

Thank you all for your help.

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