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Help booking a flight

Miles experts help please! I'm trying to fly from DEN to LIH September 30th (economy) and out of OGG October 14th (first). I need 3 tickets, have two regional upgrades available, $600 in vouchers, and points. What's the best way to go about this and ensure I get first class on the way home? R class tickets appear available for that fight home but how can I be sure there are two? And should I buy the third one first with points/cash or buy it after I use my upgrades? Thanks in advance for helping!

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Originally Posted by becknuts (Post 27548743)

Enable expert mode. It'll show # of R seats available when you look at flight details. View account, go to "Profile", "Preferences", click on "View all flight search preferences", and you can enable expert mode there.

I'd use RPUs first just in case can't find a use for them later, unless vouchers expire soon.

I'm not seeing R availability out or back on your dates. Saturdays are peak travel days, so I doubt you're going to have an easy time getting 3 seats on same plane(s) - frankly almost a zero chance of even one on the OGG-DEN non-stop on a Saturday. What flight(s) do you think you see availability?

If it says ' R0
RN0' does that not mean there are upgrades available?

R0 indeed means that there are no upgrades available at this time. R space may change though, so it is worth checking in the future.

It's so far away that speculating is a bit of a fool's errand.

That being said you want to look for flights that have the highest "P" remaining. This is the lowest First class fare bucket and a higher "P" means UA thinks they need to sell more discounted F tickets on the flight which means higher chance that some will ultimately become R.

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Originally Posted by becknuts (Post 27550881)

If it says ' R0
RN0' does that not mean there are upgrades available?

0 means zero. You are looking for R to be greater than zero to use RPUs or miles for an upgrade. RO means there zero seats available for upgrade, R1 means there's one seat available, R2, two seats, etc. Likelihood of 3 R seats opening on the Saturday OGG-DEN lie-flat non-stop are unfortunately just about zero. A lot of people like to begin and end their trip to Hawaii on a Saturday.