100+ on UG list
Dec 2, 2013, 11:20 am
#16
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Everyone knows their own experience. I think you SFO guys have really taken it on the chin the worst wrt FFM floodgates, though. EWR probably close behind.
With offices both in NYC and upstate, Ive found I can travel out of upstate NY airports with much less hassle and >90% CPU rates, so the disconnect makes sense. I actually have XPUs to burn this year..but someone is always traveling either in family or on CC.
With offices both in NYC and upstate, Ive found I can travel out of upstate NY airports with much less hassle and >90% CPU rates, so the disconnect makes sense. I actually have XPUs to burn this year..but someone is always traveling either in family or on CC.
Dec 2, 2013, 11:45 am
#17
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The numbers are lower but I've seen 32 with a full Business Class cabin on SFO-LHR - when there are no CPUs or RPUs so all those 32 must either have used a GPU or have used miles + co-pay - and all were disappointed.
Dec 2, 2013, 11:47 am
#18
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+1. I recall seeing one flight at least into the 60s from SFO - IAD. This is, IMHO, the hardest flight to get UG. I've only gotten once this year.
As a 1K on a relatively low fare, I was ~46th on the list that time.
Dec 2, 2013, 11:53 am
#19
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... or they were non-rev. Almost all of these huge waitlist flights have a ton of NR passengers. I have seen 50+ non-revs on lists out of LAS. You can pick out the non-revs by comparing the UG waitlist with the standby waitlist. I believe the only way you can be listed on the waitlist for standby and an upgrade is if you are a non-rev.
Dec 2, 2013, 12:08 pm
#20
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I've seen it quite often recently where the F cabin is quite empty a week or so out, then all of a sudden, it fills up quickly and the names on the Status page do not show upgraded...so it seems like UA is becoming a master of selling the upgrades out from under the over-entitled elites ;-)
-jeremy
Dec 2, 2013, 12:15 pm
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... or they were non-rev. Almost all of these huge waitlist flights have a ton of NR passengers. I have seen 50+ non-revs on lists out of LAS. You can pick out the non-revs by comparing the UG waitlist with the standby waitlist. I believe the only way you can be listed on the waitlist for standby and an upgrade is if you are a non-rev.
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Dec 2, 2013, 12:28 pm
#24
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Man... I just read all those comments and my excitement about becoming silver for my first time next week just disapeared (I will be based out of SFO!) ... Ooh well.. I try to get some Juice out of it from the Flying I do with copa in central America :/
Dec 2, 2013, 1:57 pm
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