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#3181
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: CAE,AGS
Programs: AAExP, Hyatt Globalist, HHonors Gold, IHG Spire, Marriott Plat
Posts: 3,121
If I want to upgrade my membership from Gold to Platinum, and I follow the steps on the screen, how will I be charged? Will there be an adjustment from the Gold membership fee, i.e. only $25 additional charged? Or do I pay the entire Platinum fee and my membership is now upgraded to Platinum for an additional year (my initial membership was started 4/11/2010) until 4/11/2012? It is a bit unclear on the explanations dropdown and I think that is how I am reading it.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.

#3182
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Worldwide
Posts: 12,931

Hubby is booked into 7C on US 734 PHL-MAN on May 13th The Amadeus seat map is still showing his seat available. How come? And, how come Amadeus doesn't show row 6? We did discover it appears on the US website a little more than 24 hrs before check-in. Not there at this time, but we've been following each day's flight and expect it to show up later today.
Eileen
Eileen

#3183
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Worldwide
Posts: 12,931

If I want to upgrade my membership from Gold to Platinum, and I follow the steps on the screen, how will I be charged? Will there be an adjustment from the Gold membership fee, i.e. only $25 additional charged? Or do I pay the entire Platinum fee and my membership is now upgraded to Platinum for an additional year (my initial membership was started 4/11/2010) until 4/11/2012? It is a bit unclear on the explanations dropdown and I think that is how I am reading it.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
- 12M/Platinum: 6.4M + 12M = 18.4M Platinum
- 6M/Platinum: 6.4M + 6M = 12.4M Platinum
- 2M/Platinum: 6.4M + 2M = 8.4M Platinum

#3184
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: YYZ/YUL
Programs: UA 1K, AC nadda, DL, WS-Nadda
Posts: 1,475
Award Classes
I know this is buried somewhere, but can someone please let me know on KVS what classes aeroplan awards are booked into both Y and J.

#3185
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Toronto, ON
Programs: AC E50K
Posts: 5,709
Fare classes differ between airlines, however for most *A airlines (incl. AC)
Business books into I class
Economy books into X class

#3186
Moderator: Luxury Hotels and FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Palo Alto, California,USA
Posts: 17,486
Excuse me if this is a trivial question, but I am new to considering KVS. Is there a simple way to show upgrade availability (NC) on UA on a given route for a date range? This would be really useful given how far UA has tuightened upgrade availability.

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#3188
Moderator: Luxury Hotels and FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Palo Alto, California,USA
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Please see http://FAQ.KVSTool.com/

#3189
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: DCA
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You can use the KVS tool to search for UA upgrade availability.
If by 'on a given route for a date range' you mean entering one set of dates and asking it to spit back which dates have NC or NF space, then no.
But you can pretty easily scroll through a series of dates on at a time to see whether there's upgrade space. Much quicker than using the United website to do the same.
If by 'on a given route for a date range' you mean entering one set of dates and asking it to spit back which dates have NC or NF space, then no.
But you can pretty easily scroll through a series of dates on at a time to see whether there's upgrade space. Much quicker than using the United website to do the same.

#3191
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Palo Alto, California,USA
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Thanks. The answer in the FAQ seems to contradict what gleff said above, but if you can just <ctrl><page down> it would still be a lot faster than the UA website, which seems to think for at least 15 seconds when modifying a request. I'll gamble $15 and give it a try in the next day or two!

#3192
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: NYC
Posts: 69,210
Thanks. The answer in the FAQ seems to contradict what gleff said above, but if you can just <ctrl><page down> it would still be a lot faster than the UA website, which seems to think for at least 15 seconds when modifying a request. I'll gamble $15 and give it a try in the next day or two!
And you have to be willing to put up with the "RTFM" help offered when you ask a question.

#3193
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hawaii
Programs: AA-Plat DL-Plat (did status match on DL before losing EXP on AA)
Posts: 288
You have to manually scroll through the range of the dates. You cannot say "give me all the flights this week" but you can query each of the 7 days and use the keyboard commands to reasonably easily scroll through the days. You do still have to wait for the app to go query .bomb and parse and display the data but it is faster than using .bomb directly because of the way it reformats the data for reading.
And you have to be willing to put up with the "RTFM" help offered when you ask a question.
And you have to be willing to put up with the "RTFM" help offered when you ask a question.
It doesn't appear to be gone from the UA website, so I think that means waiting for KVS to do another program update to bring back the functionality.... (Notice that it also has not separated the flight # from the carrier, and puts 'seats' in the Flight # column.)
[KVS Availability Tool 5.4.4/Diamond - ITA: Awards-Upgrades/X1]
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HNL Honolulu Int'l HI US [PHNL] LAX Los Angeles Int'l CA US [KLAX] TUE 08 Jun 2010 Carrier Flight From Depart To Arrive A/C St Availability --------- ------ ---- -------- ---- -------- --- -- ---------------------------------------------- United 80 seats HNL 06:50 LAX 15:21 763 0 Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert United 82 seats HNL 12:50 LAX 21:28 763 0 Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert United 84 seats HNL 20:05 LAX 04:37 +1 763 0 Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert United 72 seats HNL 06:35 SFO 14:50 763 0 Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert -> Unite seats SFO 16:00 LAX 17:34 752 0 Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert United 72 seats HNL 06:35 SFO 14:50 763 0 Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert

#3194
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 318
I have the same problem as noted by VRichard. Was working fine a couple of days ago but now getting message "Incorrect MP Profile Settings -- Set To Expert". However, my MP profile is still set to expert.

#3195
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: NYC
Posts: 69,210
Indeed, one of the problems with an application that is reading data from websites and reformatting it for display is that when the underlying data format is changed an update is required. I'm sure an update will be along eventually.
