Star Alliance Upgrade Award on EVA
Mar 29, 2019, 8:00 pm
#151
Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: UA, AS
Posts: 2,393
Probably. EVA has something like a 359 day booking window. If your *A miles allow you to upgrade then your odds will be pretty high. Increase your odds by calling EVA before booking to confirm upgrade space.
Apr 2, 2019, 2:18 am
#152
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: LAS ORD
Programs: AA Pro (mostly B6) OZ♦ (flying BR/UA), BA Silver Hyatt LT, Wynn Black, Cosmo Plat, Mlife Noir
Posts: 5,992
Apr 3, 2019, 9:30 pm
#153
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: YYZ/YKZ
Posts: 3,668
Upgraded my BR35/BR36 (YYZ-TPE-YYZ) flights from P to I for September at the end of last month despite there not showing any Aeroplan/United MP award availability. For $1400 to/from NRT it was the best deal out there. Considering Y+ was around the same price.
Apr 4, 2019, 12:08 am
#154
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: LAS ORD
Programs: AA Pro (mostly B6) OZ♦ (flying BR/UA), BA Silver Hyatt LT, Wynn Black, Cosmo Plat, Mlife Noir
Posts: 5,992
Just to confirm: Your search for full award redemption showed no availability, but you were able to upgrade via SAUA?
Apr 4, 2019, 2:44 pm
#155
Join Date: May 2015
Location: WAS, SZX, HKG
Programs: AS MVP Gold 75K, CX Green
Posts: 735
Datapoint here: just upgraded 12/14 ORD-TPE via UA SAUA. I class not available as per Expertflyer. Didn’t call to check Z class.
Interestingly I was ticketed ORD-TPE-HKG with a 1hr connection in TPE, but the ORD-TPE upgrade went through fine and I didn’t encounter the married segment problem.
EDIT: changed some wording for clarification.
Interestingly I was ticketed ORD-TPE-HKG with a 1hr connection in TPE, but the ORD-TPE upgrade went through fine and I didn’t encounter the married segment problem.
EDIT: changed some wording for clarification.
Last edited by shd9; Apr 4, 2019 at 5:45 pm
Apr 4, 2019, 4:20 pm
#156
Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: UA, AS
Posts: 2,393
Datapoint here: just upgraded 12/14 ORD-TPE via UA SAUA. I class not available as per Expertflyer. Didn’t call to check Z class.
Interestingly I was ticketed ORD-TPE-HKG with a 1hr connection in TPE, but the whole upgrade went through fine and I didn’t encounter the married segment problem.
Interestingly I was ticketed ORD-TPE-HKG with a 1hr connection in TPE, but the whole upgrade went through fine and I didn’t encounter the married segment problem.
Apr 4, 2019, 5:44 pm
#157
Join Date: May 2015
Location: WAS, SZX, HKG
Programs: AS MVP Gold 75K, CX Green
Posts: 735
Sorry for the misunderstanding. By "whole" I mean the entire upgrade process (searching availability on United, making a request, getting the UA upgrade receipt, confirming on BR that I am booked in Royal Laurel/Z and assigning me a seat, etc), not both segments. I mentioned this because some poster suggests there may be a married segment issue preventing the upgrade from happening, while I didn't encounter that problem. I feel that TPE-HKG is too short for C to worth it and by having a B class ticket I can assign myself a seat in PY anyways.
Apr 4, 2019, 7:53 pm
#158
Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: UA, AS
Posts: 2,393
Sorry for the misunderstanding. By "whole" I mean the entire upgrade process (searching availability on United, making a request, getting the UA upgrade receipt, confirming on BR that I am booked in Royal Laurel/Z and assigning me a seat, etc), not both segments. I mentioned this because some poster suggests there may be a married segment issue preventing the upgrade from happening, while I didn't encounter that problem. I feel that TPE-HKG is too short for C to worth it and by having a B class ticket I can assign myself a seat in PY anyways.
Apr 8, 2019, 7:25 pm
#160
Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: UA, AS
Posts: 2,393
Apr 9, 2019, 1:38 pm
#161
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 60
Well I do my due diligence and hope for the best, and it worked out. Just transferred my next batch of 90K miles from Chase to United and will be checking it every day for my return flight. It's not looking that good since we're 9 days out and only 12 seats left.
Apr 9, 2019, 3:43 pm
#162
Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: UA, AS
Posts: 2,393
You probably have flex or semi-flex tickets though so probably it would only be a small change fee to switch flights for the return. I would be checking alternate flights to see if any had upgrade space and would happily pay a small change fee to get a flight with upgrade space.
Apr 9, 2019, 4:50 pm
#163
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 231
Someone posted on the Aeroplan/AC forum that reward seats appear to be opening up at T-4, I'd imagine upgrades could be on the same schedule.
Quoted:
Quoted:
I’ve been keeping an eye on BR award space, specifically on BR35 (ex YYZ), since one leg of an original OZ booking was cancelled and now have a 6+ hour layover.
BR seems to be opening last-minute I space for international flights at T-4 consistently, no earlier. T-14 definitely not, at least not in recent months. Might be a decent baseline if anyone’s looking. Obviously ExpertFlyer alerts are your best bet.
BR seems to be opening last-minute I space for international flights at T-4 consistently, no earlier. T-14 definitely not, at least not in recent months. Might be a decent baseline if anyone’s looking. Obviously ExpertFlyer alerts are your best bet.
Apr 10, 2019, 12:41 pm
#164
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 60
I was just checking for upgrade for my return flight, and got this blank warning message. I verified all info was entered correctly, and tried on 2 different browsers. Anyone know what this warning message is?
Last edited by XFer2; Apr 10, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Apr 11, 2019, 4:00 am
#165
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Programs: Million Miles achieved | 2017 Delta Platinum, United NADA, Global Entry, PreCheck, NEXUS
Posts: 1,295
FamilyName FirstNameMiddleNam
e.g. For Mary Anne Smith
Smith Maryanne
look in your EVA reservation online and do it exactly the same on the United upgrade page.
Hope this works.