Clearing R T-24
Jun 13, 2017, 3:43 pm
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Clearing R T-24
I believe the current policy is that you can't wait-list for R T-24 and you can't apply to clear available R T-3. I think this is correct? anyway has anyone found this policy to be flexible?
Jun 13, 2017, 7:00 pm
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United's computer systems simply cannot support waitlisting within 24 hours. There's no way to override this because it's 1960's technologuy.
Jun 13, 2017, 7:39 pm
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Yep, the waitlist expires at T-24 and transfers over to the Upgrade Standby List upon check-in. I've had GS pull an upgrade for me and waitlist me within T-24, but I believe the agent called the "airport desk" to manually add me to thr Upgrade Standby List. I also believe in Aero at the hub stations agents can pull an RPU and be added to the list. Within 3 hours of departure upgrades can no longer be booked into R/PN.
Jun 13, 2017, 8:19 pm
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This is simply not true. It's a business decision, made within the last year or so. There are all sorts of waitlists within 24 hours, and it's not hard to put someone onto any of them. UA has chosen no longer to allow it.
Jun 13, 2017, 9:07 pm
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I wouldn't be surprised if the "no waitlisting" is a systems issue, though as boat9781 notes, agents are able to do it on an individual basis.
Jun 13, 2017, 9:25 pm
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When did this happen? My record close in time was a T-1:05 jump from J->F across 5 people into open ON space. I went through 3 phone agents till I got one to do it and I was worried the flight would go under gate control before they could finish. They ended up pulling a new GPU and refunding my original one.
Jun 13, 2017, 9:33 pm
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Yep, the waitlist expires at T-24 and transfers over to the Upgrade Standby List upon check-in. I've had GS pull an upgrade for me and waitlist me within T-24, but I believe the agent called the "airport desk" to manually add me to thr Upgrade Standby List. I also believe in Aero at the hub stations agents can pull an RPU and be added to the list. Within 3 hours of departure upgrades can no longer be booked into R/PN.
When did this happen? My record close in time was a T-1:05 jump from J->F across 5 people into open ON space. I went through 3 phone agents till I got one to do it and I was worried the flight would go under gate control before they could finish. They ended up pulling a new GPU and refunding my original one.
Jun 14, 2017, 7:56 am
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Update - I just waitlisted domestic (R not available) (after SDC) T-24 about 20 mins after without issue; so there must be a grace period as agent didn't say anything about having to force it...
Jun 21, 2017, 7:52 pm
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Interesting discussion. I recently changed my MUA waitlisted flight around T-8. The agent said she had to uncheck me in, make the change, and then rewaitlist. Not sure if the fact the miles were already pulled make a difference. So as others noted, it can be done. I agree that the MUA policy expressly forbids WL within 24 hours though!
