Jul 20, 2013, 6:22 pm
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UA Upsell Offers to Business/First at Purchase and Day of Departure (TOD) [Archive]
Mar 1, 2017, 5:39 pm
#2371
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I am willing to pay up to $1800 each way for a 9+ hour flight upgrade (out of pocket because my firm won't) and $300 each way for SFO-EWR/BOS/IAD flights. It's more important for me to sleep and maybe have a glass of wine than be fatigued for the entirety of the trip because I was squeezed in 7C bulkhead exit seat on a non-PS 757. Ugh!!!
Mar 1, 2017, 5:49 pm
#2372
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Depends if it is a fee for the upgrade or an upfare. If the upgrade fee goes to R just get the original class, if the fee puts you in a different fare class, but still an upgrade, like A or P or Z get the extra PQM's but not the extra PQD's. If a true upfare, paying the difference in fare to put you in the premium cabin, then you get the extra PQM's and PQD's.
Mar 1, 2017, 5:54 pm
#2373
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$320 SFO->BOS red eye tonight. Need to work tomorrow morning so took it. Down from thousands (!) they wanted last week when I checked. Last F seat available, was booked earlier today.
Mar 2, 2017, 12:23 am
#2374
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03/01/17: UA233 SFO-EWR on 77W - now in 39J (last exit row aisle)
UACO is asking $299 to move up to J/Polaris Seat - @ T-24 there were still 14 J seats but now @ T-19.5, down to 1. Started at #1 on upgrade list but now at #4 so very unlikely.
Won't be taking the $299. Had applied an instrument - upgraded on LAX-SFO but doesn't look like SFO-EWR will pan out.
David
UACO is asking $299 to move up to J/Polaris Seat - @ T-24 there were still 14 J seats but now @ T-19.5, down to 1. Started at #1 on upgrade list but now at #4 so very unlikely.
Won't be taking the $299. Had applied an instrument - upgraded on LAX-SFO but doesn't look like SFO-EWR will pan out.
David
Sadly, my alarm didn't go off (nor did I receive any of the flight reminders from United) so I awoke so late that I wouldn't have made it to the 6AM LAX-SFO flight today and hadn't cleared into J/Polaris on the SFO-EWR 77W - was able to SDC to 9:10AM LAX-EWR direct. On the LAX-EWR flight I was offered $279 to move from 21B to the last J seat on a 752. Didn't take.
Will have to keep an eye on the applied instrument to make sure it either gets re-deposited or to bug Mileage Plus to get it back.
David
Mar 2, 2017, 8:38 am
#2375
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Follow up:
Sadly, my alarm didn't go off (nor did I receive any of the flight reminders from United) so I awoke so late that I wouldn't have made it to the 6AM LAX-SFO flight today and hadn't cleared into J/Polaris on the SFO-EWR 77W - was able to SDC to 9:10AM LAX-EWR direct. On the LAX-EWR flight I was offered $279 to move from 21B to the last J seat on a 752. Didn't take.
Will have to keep an eye on the applied instrument to make sure it either gets re-deposited or to bug Mileage Plus to get it back.
David
Sadly, my alarm didn't go off (nor did I receive any of the flight reminders from United) so I awoke so late that I wouldn't have made it to the 6AM LAX-SFO flight today and hadn't cleared into J/Polaris on the SFO-EWR 77W - was able to SDC to 9:10AM LAX-EWR direct. On the LAX-EWR flight I was offered $279 to move from 21B to the last J seat on a 752. Didn't take.
Will have to keep an eye on the applied instrument to make sure it either gets re-deposited or to bug Mileage Plus to get it back.
David
Mar 2, 2017, 9:01 am
#2376
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Mar 2, 2017, 9:10 am
#2377
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Just depends on what class the upgrade books into.
If it did accrue extra, would just be PQM. I have no problem getting those, it's the PQD and RDM that have become difficult under the new system.
Mar 2, 2017, 10:14 am
#2378
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I don't think you get the higher PQM/PQD because it's a buyup and not a class change or something like that -- example: P vs PN. I was told that if an offer is made (esp on international flights), you should call United reservations and ask them to make the changes in the record.
Mar 2, 2017, 10:34 am
#2379
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Mar 2, 2017, 12:02 pm
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Mar 2, 2017, 2:13 pm
#2381
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Mar 2, 2017, 2:18 pm
#2382
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If it booked into P, you're paying the fare difference (however little it may be depending on your original fare), not a TOD offer, so the P fare earnings apply. If it booked into PN, ZN, or in some really rare cases, R, then the original fare class earnings apply.
Mar 2, 2017, 2:24 pm
#2383
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Mar 2, 2017, 2:29 pm
#2384
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While logic might dictate that, the standard nature of the $249 and $299 offer on the IAD-LAX/SFO routes where last minute business fares run buckwild says otherwise. But again, as i said YMMV.
Mar 2, 2017, 3:14 pm
#2385
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Yeah the buy-ups book into whatever's available. I've had $x9 buy-ups book into both revenue and upgrade fare classes without accruing additional PQD (which they would do if it had been an upfare).