I understand what is written down! I call it a lie. First it is impossible to find that r>0 but my expirince is different. 8 1st class, 40 business seats all were empty at booing and I am 67 with RPU even with the fact that 8 ware moved to fist. And I got the fare as upgradable +RPU at the time of booking with complexity empty plane. But instead of confirmation was put on wait list. I guess 40+ people decided to use Global upgrade on this flight. It is possible but I find it hard to believe.

No difference in priority between GPU/RPU/miles. Is this IAD? The home of the Y government fare which is higher priority than RPUs. So likely you have GS and YBM fares all ahead of you -- with many Y government flyers. I find as an 1K, it is a tough upgrade to/from IAD with RPU.

Yeah IAD. I am glad it is a big plane more reasonable for 7 hours than single isle. But this is a cluster here.

Again I do think the earned reward should have priority. Of course if you buy business, you bought business or first understood!

Thanks again. The other hang up that I got from UA 1k desk is that it's operated by Privatair (LH 591). From my searches I didn't see if those can indeed not be upgraded with a gpu or miles. Do you/anybody know? Obviously if not, I want to reduce the fair from B to cheaper fare.

edit for future people searching: Just talked with the second agent tonight on this and they called LH to also confirm. It is not upgradeable since it is not operated by LH. And from ua.com I now see (missed it before): "Global Premier Upgrades on Lufthansa-operated flights are valid for one-segment, one-cabin upgrades on any multi-cabin international flight operated by Lufthansa."

The minimum fare to redeem a GPU on LH is Q, not B.

I don't know about Privatair. The rules say "Lufthansa operated flight."

I searched but could not find this. Can a single GPU be used across two separate UA tickets if the other conditions are met? I am flying NRT-LAX on one ticket and LAX-IAH on a different one with a 2 hour layover in LAX

In my experience, you cannot. You can always call in and try. Sometimes it seems like a very motivated agent can do anything.

Privatair should work. Kind of a wet lease, not a codeshare.

Just a random data point... when an agent is not involved and its just the computer...
Used a single GPU on BAH->IAD->LAX->SYD for Y->C and everything cleared and no one stopped me at any point
Max layover of 6 hours in any city

you should be able to use a single GPU on this :confused: and no one will stop you.

Trying to book a ticket to BoM and there is R space available on the IAD -DXB flight. The only problem is that UA seems to have filed a S fare on this route that connects with an AI L fare. Can I buy this S fare and have the agent up fare it to W? Or the married segment logic would not allow me to do so. They definitely have filed W and V fares, but I have a feeling that because of the AI flight, they won't let it happen. Any ideas, suggestions?

I didn't think you were supposed to be able to use a single GPU across both main oceans

Never have been aware of such a limitation (no known limitation of number of segments).

A rhetorical question: will my waitlisted segments ever clear?

For some of the first non-paid-F I've booked for the year, I have the following all waitlisted with GPUs or RPUs:

• ITO-LAX-IAD (Monday redeye / Tuesday a.m. flights)
• IAD-LAS-IAD (Friday and Monday flights)
• POS-IAH-IAD (Monday flights)

Just a general gripe that there wasn't any R on or around these dates, and that they still haven't cleared. Should have booked the POS-IAH-IAD in paid P when it was available, I guess.

Is it worth buying up to W for this fare to be waitlisted? (It's showing R0 for W and V)

PEK - EWR (Sunday)
MEX - PEK (Wed)

It would be a $500 difference to buy up to W. Ive never use a GPU before so any advice or votes of confidence is greatly appreciated