nomad420

Well as was noted the GS instrument will have the highest likely hood of clearing. With I believe the exception of SAN all of your flights will have connections so that also raises the issue of perhaps only getting part of your itinerary to clear but not the entire trip. With CLE to HNL you have several options as to routing and upgrades into HNL have been relatively easier now so that may be your easiest to use the instrument from your 1K cert. Flying into Liberia will be through IAH, the last time I took that flight I did clear a GPU (as a 1K) but that was a couple of years ago and flights in LIR are limited. I would use the GS GPU into LIH (or attempt to use it). CLE to SAN I have limited experience with but CLE - LAX/SFO I have had surprisingly poor luck clearing instruments particularly on the red-eye flights into CLE.

IAH-OIL-TRASH

Row 23 in new configuration is E+ exit row. In old, it's E, non-exit. I'm not sure what happens if there's a a/c swap. Premiers are probably on their own to monitor seats and make sure they have the seats they want. In this case, if they switched out of 9CD into row 23 before the latest a/c assignment, I think they're screwed unless they catch it themselves. If they were customers who actually bought E+ seats, and moved to 23, I would think/hope that UA would proactively assign them E+ seats after the lastest swap.

findark

I expect all pax are basically on their own, and someone who paid for an E+ seat assignment and didn't fly with one can get a refund. Yes, it's a pretty poor situation.

UASleeper

Historically, what are the chances for my RPUs clearing on my mid September EWR-SFO-OGG and OGG-HNL-EWR flights?

jsloan

What days of the week?

UASleeper

jsloan: Both flights are on a Monday (9/17 and 9/24).

nomad420

I would say better than 50% with this wild card thrown in. The TOD for this AM's flight from SFO-KOA was $99!! Needless to say it was jumped on so I am sure that foiled a bunch of potential instrument upgrades. I didn't get upgraded on last Sat AM flight in KOA as well. As I was #1 on the upgrade list the GA actually told me the last two seats were "bought" at <T24, my guess is something like T2hrs.

findark

EWR-SFO on a Monday morning will not clear.

nomad420

Should have been more clear at which flight I was referring to, I was considering only the SFO-OGG flight. You are indeed correct, EWR-SFO will NOT clear on Monday AM. I guess I took that for granted.

UASleeper

WineCountryUA

a very tough upgrade

You can do this vis the change flight option.

764toHI

Anyone have any experience with a GPU or mileage upgrade clearing on UA79 EWR-NRT on a Saturday in November? Or maybe even recent Saturday experiences since the 77W was introduced on the route?

I know Saturday westbound TPAC travel is generally more difficult given business travel. But I'm also thinking the amount of premium cabin lift to Tokyo has increased materially over the past year with the new HND flights by NH and JL and UA upgauging UA79 to a 77W.

luv2go

Booked 2 people same reservation (both 1K) on a W fare on GPU Waitlist.

24 August UA 134 EWR-ZRH .

Currently stands at

• J9
• JN9
• C9
• D9
• Z9
• ZN9
• P7
• PN3
• R0
• RN0
• IN0
• I0
• Y9
• YN9
• B9
• M9
• E9
• U9
• H9
• HN9
• Q9
• V7
• W5
• S4
• T2
• L1
• K0
• G0
• N9
• XN0
• X0

Seat map shows 19 unassigned seats up front.

Do we have a chance?

StuckinITH

Oh no! Another flight with the 20 seater motor coach! It was reported yesterday but I did not know that it was going to be a recurrent thing.

Anyways, Polaris Business is sold 26/39 so only 13 seats left. Being on a Friday is a negative but PN3 is good news: there are no GS traveling alone, traveling with a friend (or relative) or traveling with 2 friends (or relatives) that are waitlisted but there may be 1Ks with V fares or better. With that number of seats left, I have frequently been upgraded 4 days before my flight. If it goes to the last day, you just have to watch for those passengers being tempted by the TODs.

How long ago did you waitlist your GPUs? Do you realize that if in the meantime they have opened one R at a time, you were bypassed by the fact that you have a reservation for 2. My wife and I book our tickets separately even though she's only Platinum. We have frequently cleared at different times and we never saw R opening so we think that they just open one R at a time.

Kacee

That's what they typically do when they're clearing pax off the waitlist - R1 R0 R1 R0, etc.