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TimF1975 Mar 4, 2012 10:37 am
Mine said "from $449" and then offered me to buy up for $69. Seems like there are a few bugs out there...

TimF1975 Mar 5, 2012 4:45 am
30 on the upgrade list with two open seats this morning.

weirdlyndon Mar 5, 2012 7:32 am
While everyone else is getting these cheap upgrades, the new united.com is trying to charge me $754 to upgrade LGA-ORD...

vkng Mar 5, 2012 7:51 am
Cheaper? I wish. Was offered a double upgrade to F at checkin on ORD-GRU for $5k. I can currently upgrade to C GRU-ORD for $1.8k, which seems reasonable but I won't be taking it.

W fare coming down, S fare going back.

avidflyer Mar 5, 2012 7:53 am
Originally Posted by TimF1975 (Post 18136531)
30 on the upgrade list with two open seats this morning.
It looks like they are all Silvers. The sweep ran and issues 7 CPUs last night. The issue for this weekend (reported by UAInsider) was that the CPU sweep was shut off (nobody got advanced UGs) until yesterday at noon. That put a bunch of things out of order.

bmvaughn Mar 5, 2012 8:31 am
It's no longer available as of this morning.

abefroman329 Mar 5, 2012 8:31 am
Originally Posted by raehl311 (Post 18131266)
I flew US for the first time in a while last week (last-minute purchase and UA/CO was much higher priced) and was offered $100 MSP-CLT F out; $50 IAD-CLT and $100 CLT-MSP back.

Wasn't on a cheapo fare to begin with, but no status on US and I DEFINITELY displaced some other US elites.


Seems like this is just another of the new airline things.
Those are the GoFares upgrades and have been around for at least 6 years, probably much longer. $50 per 500 miles traveled. I have no idea if they trump elite upgrades, but they were generally available on the Shuttle for me as long as I wasn't flying during irrops or on Friday evenings.

avidflyer Mar 5, 2012 8:37 am
Originally Posted by abefroman329 (Post 18137539)
Those are the GoFares upgrades and have been around for at least 6 years, probably much longer. $50 per 500 miles traveled. I have no idea if they trump elite upgrades, but they were generally available on the Shuttle for me as long as I wasn't flying during irrops or on Friday evenings.
Yes and the compounding issue this weekend is that CPUs were turned off for the go-live. The system thought all elites were upgraded because there was CPU inventory left (in the case of this particular flight there were 9 CPUs unassigned) when in fact none of the automatic upgrades were run..

dshafiee Mar 5, 2012 8:50 am
Not a good deal
 
2 seats in F, booked in G (Cheap), offered 179 DEN-AUS on express.

Not a good deal. It is R1, but I can not see the upgrade list. Cleared PDX/DEN on a 57 before the system changed. I have never seen in the UA system so many F open with a long wait list. Currently booked 13/24 with 9 on the w/l. UA usually clears everyone before check in. So, this is new.

Also booked LAX/SFO/PDX on Thurdsay in U and not cleared.

abefroman329 Mar 6, 2012 8:15 am
If it's any consolation, the offer to buy-up on my DCA-ORD flight next Friday jumped from $175 pre-3/3 to $555 just now.

bmvaughn Mar 10, 2012 12:36 am
Another $0 upgrade!


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