sfo-msy 3/16/12, 1p (or whatever gold is these days), V fare, $79 offer 23.5 hours in advance of flight. Passed. Olci said 10 people on list with 1 F seat remaining. Sitting with friends or I may have paid (for the ua/co pricing monitors).

MSN>ORD>DEN March 18
V-Fare
2P/Silver

Buyup is exactly the difference to a B-Fare, for a 3class 763. Did learn E+ has different pricing by seat.

3/7 SFO-PHL
E fare
$302 offered to upgrade the week before flight as well as at check-in
Declined, sat in coach

3/10 JFK-SFO
U fare
$306 offered to upgrade the week before flight
Used RPU, cleared at T-3 days

4/24 UA869 SFO-HKG, B Fare.
Was offered UG on website at booking for $99.
Accepted.

4/28 UA862 HKG-SFO, B Fare.
Noticed PN availability when checking website a few days after booking. Called UA and asked for chance to pay for UG. Was told that buy up could not be offered over the phone, web only. Spoke to supervisor and was surprised to be offered UG for $0.
Accepted :)


WIL/R

March 28
UA 958 ORD-LHR
1K
Business J Fare
Checked in at exactly T-24 hours. Offered $559 buy up to First. Declined with 2 F seats available (that had been available for weeks). #1 on the upgrade waitlist (had a GPU outstanding for weeks that never cleared). Within 2 hours of check-in, both F seats are now booked. Still #1 on waitlist, but not likely to clear since no more F seats.

As an aside, had to call UA to confirm my upgrade to First for the return LHR-ORD flight, even though I had a GPU outstanding for some time. I just happened to check inventory on the flight one day and noticed an upgrade open up. I immediately called and was able to confirm the upgrade after the agent spoke to a supervisor. I believe this problem has been documented in other threads.

Flying LAX-SFO-HKG-SIN tomorrow, and was just offered a buy-up to F on SFO-HKG (744) for $4,909.

K>F

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3/17
Sea-Iad (448)
v fare
129 offered at checkin with 4 open seats in first and 6 already wait listed as silver.

One way m fare difference prices much higher than offer

MEL-JFK Fare in L Class bouthg United AU website Feb 9
Phone UA USA got x2 Mileage Upgrade awards waitlisted for MEl-LAX and SFO-SYD-MEL Upgrgraded SFO-JFK vv with x2 Regionals - confirmed
Checked seating on United.com Travel Options - offered Upgrade Yto F from MEL-LAX for US$1220 took it paid card charged
Phone United US recredited 30K miles oneway
Online checking for return flight post merger - 24 hours before SFO-SYD flight -offered upgrade online from L to F for US$5731 - declined - no upgrade to C offered
2 hours later rechecked in to check seating - upgrade to F gone - offer of US$1720 upgrade from L to C paid and chose a seat in C

Onboard plane SFO-SYD- (flew from JFK so got printed boarding passes all the way through to MEL in NYC -) guy comes up and tell me I'm sitiitng in his aisle seat - calls over Maitre d'Cabine - Maitre d'Cabine says they were trying to fing me to give me my new boarding pass - 4x instead of 6x - so got my upgrade to F without paying for it Good on United - I'd just like the miles from this SFO-SYD flight credited!

3/19: DAY-ORD-HPN (DAY-ORD on CR2)
ORD-HPN UA 3444
1K with non-premier companion on same res.
3 F seats open
T fare
$99 per/person to F at check-in declined.

The $99 does not represent even 1/3 of the difference between the purchase price and an M/B/Y or F-class fare (update: it's actually about 1/8 of the difference). Before OLCI the upsell offer had been over $500.

Sometime between 12 and 6 hours before departure I went from #1 on the waitlist with 3 available to #1 with 0 available. 2 of the 3 newbies show up on the list as cleared.

Update: Got the last F seat at the gate (1 pax did not check in, as F was full with 5 checked in at T-30m). My companion was #1 on the list.

On a related note, the buy-up for the same route/fare class next Friday & Monday is $814 (HPN-ORD-DAY) and $784 (DAY-ORD-HPN). Both are the same fare, the same carriers and aircraft (S5 and G7 on E70s and CR7s), all with 5/6 open in F. The total comes to the difference between what I paid and a B fare (no M fare on this route).

UA 1534 EWR-DFW

GS on a U fare. Buy-up in advance of check-in of $219 (difference to M fare).

Check in this morning, offered buy up of $99 with 54 eligible customers for an upgrade. Took the upgrade as I have to do work but the system CLEARLY isn't working right. :td::td:

UA 858 3/19
SFO-DEN
11 F seats available
Offered buy up for $319
S fare
Passed.

#9 on upgrade list currently. Odds of my sitting up from for this flight? Not good.

UA 256
3/19
No upgrade offer prior to check-in.
Offered $89 for upgrade at check-in.
20 F seats available, R/RN was 9 last time I looked.

3/21/12
UA 895
BOS - ORD
2P traveling alone
Mobile app says 13 F seats booked (on a 752), so 11 F seats avail (R9/RN9 on website)
T->F TOD $329

Edit: U/G cleared at roughly T-17 hrs

3/17/12 UA51262
Member (non-elite) :o
Fare Class S
Upgrade for $79
No CPU - took it with partial offset from $25 baggage fee

UA5 IAH-MSY 3/17
Silver on a H fare
Offered $285 before check in, $99 at OLCI
Didn't bite and CPU cleared