Intra-Asia UDU?
Dec 30, 2011, 5:36 pm
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Intra-Asia UDU?
Are Intra-Asia UDUs an official benefit of the 2011 MP program?
The 2012 program lists intra-Asia (Excluding NRT-SIN and HNL-GUM) as a region eligible for CPUs and RPU.
Just curious for my two upcoming trips in Q1/2012
DLP
The 2012 program lists intra-Asia (Excluding NRT-SIN and HNL-GUM) as a region eligible for CPUs and RPU.
Just curious for my two upcoming trips in Q1/2012
DLP
Dec 30, 2011, 5:54 pm
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I am booked NRT-GUM RT as part of a MR I am doing in early January. I am rather annoyed because I am going on UA one direction and CO on the other one and cannot get an UDU on the former but am eligible for one on the latter. Every time I ask UA they continue to play by the old "no UDU out of the 50 states" rule. UA has never had a domestically configured plane outside of the US really so I think it is a matter of them not adjusting their rules. Furthermore, I think it is rather inconsistent to have three flights per day on UACO and have one of them eligible for an u/g while the other two are not, when the flights were eligible (on pure CO metal) before November 1 (and will be after the Q1 system merge).
Dec 30, 2011, 9:14 pm
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I am booked NRT-GUM RT as part of a MR I am doing in early January. I am rather annoyed because I am going on UA one direction and CO on the other one and cannot get an UDU on the former but am eligible for one on the latter. Every time I ask UA they continue to play by the old "no UDU out of the 50 states" rule. UA has never had a domestically configured plane outside of the US really so I think it is a matter of them not adjusting their rules. Furthermore, I think it is rather inconsistent to have three flights per day on UACO and have one of them eligible for an u/g while the other two are not, when the flights were eligible (on pure CO metal) before November 1 (and will be after the Q1 system merge).
Dec 30, 2011, 10:20 pm
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However, I have seen several posts here referring to intra Asia UDUs.
So far this year I have a 50% upgrade rate on NRT-ICN (3/6) and 50% on NRT-TPE (1/2). All my upgrades appeared to be op-ups ("Mr. DLP the flight was oversold an as a elite passenger we upgraded you to...").
An upgrade on a 759 miles flight will not make much of a difference, but I would hate to learn after the fact that I missed on a benefit.
Happy Travels
DLP
Dec 30, 2011, 11:49 pm
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Well when I am flying the seat map shows 2 cabins, UnitedBusiness rows, 1-6 in a 2-2-2 configuration and Y, rows 16-53. According to seatguru and the UA website this is a domestically configured plane. It probably comes from GUM since these plane began replacing the CO 76H on November 1 as I was saying and as has been noted on the PMUA forum. I do think a UDU would be nice considering the equipment is not international J and this route used to be completely upgradeable.
Dec 31, 2011, 8:41 am
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To answer folks questions, if you are flying PMUA intra-Asia (including GUM-NRT) are NOT eligible for UDU until the computer reservation system is officially merged later in Quarter 1 2012. If you are flying PMCO intra-Asia you ARE eligible for EUA (eg. GUM-HNL; NRT-SIN etc...)
Hope that helps to clarify. The next few months will, arguably, be the most frustrating as many of us wait for the 2012 benefits to kick start.
Hope that helps to clarify. The next few months will, arguably, be the most frustrating as many of us wait for the 2012 benefits to kick start.
Dec 31, 2011, 8:56 am
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To answer folks questions, if you are flying PMUA intra-Asia (including GUM-NRT) are NOT eligible for UDU until the computer reservation system is officially merged later in Quarter 1 2012. If you are flying PMCO intra-Asia you ARE eligible for EUA (eg. GUM-HNL; NRT-SIN etc...)
Hope that helps to clarify. The next few months will, arguably, be the most frustrating as many of us wait for the 2012 benefits to kick start.
Hope that helps to clarify. The next few months will, arguably, be the most frustrating as many of us wait for the 2012 benefits to kick start.