FlyerTalker70

I'm a UA Gold who just booked a flight next year LAX to DTW (via IAD) which I paid for with AC Aeroplan points. When I pushed the reservation to my MP account I was able to choose my E+ seats for both segments. Fare class is listed as United Economy (X). Interestingly the website lists both segments as being CPU eligible and that I'm on the upgrade list. Is that true (I'm a Canuck with no Chase CCs)?




Safe Travels,

James

findark

Huh. You should need to have a Chase CC for that, but if the system say you are CPU eligible, you probably are..

Kmxu

What does the text say when you click the arrows?

FlyerTalker70

That same message appears when I click on any of the upgrade arrows. I'm guessing I'll be on the CPU list? This is the second time I've attached my UA # to an Aeroplan ticket (first time was back in January). When I did it back in January I was able to select E+ seating for the UA operated segments (ZRH -> EWR and EWR -> YYZ). I believe EWR -> YYZ was a single-class UX flight so CPUs couldn't apply.

On a side note, I'm guessing it's totally legit to swap frequent flyer number on award bookings to UA to. get your *A benefits (I use Aeroplan to collect miles from my Visa & AmEx cards and credit all *A revenue miles to UA)? I suppose I could have always booked with my UA miles but I want to save those for MUAs down the road and have a ton of Aeroplan points laying around that will be worthless come 2020 when AC & *A leave Aeroplan.

Safe Travels,

James

lincolnjkc

I'm guessing that at least one part of UA's system doesn't see this as an award ticket -- and since it's not a *UA* award ticket I can see why.

For what it's worth UA issued 0-fare (as diffierientated from MP award tickets, e.g. those from the PerksPlus program are CPU (but not RPU/GPU) elligible. In fact I'm at 100% CPU clearance for those tickets. I'm wondering if Aeroplan awards fall into that category instead.

FlyerTalker70

I'm putting my CPU chances on both segments at near 0%. I've only seemed to have luck to Caribbean destinations like SJU and BQN. I suspect the elites will have me beat on the first segment (LAX -> IAD) since it's a "hub to hub" transfer likely packed with elites. I have a little hope for the IAD -> DTW segment cause who flies to DTW in the middle of winter on a weekday morning? We'll see I suppose!

One other question, if I may, how do CPUs work if you're issued a UA ticket as a result of an IRROP (i.e. suppose you're flying ORD -> LAX on AA, it gets cancelled and you get pushed to UA)? Do they count as a revenue ticket? Can I collect PQMs?

Safe Travels,

James

canadiancow

This is quite interesting.

I have an Aeroplan first class ticket booked, but the only way to get to LAX was SFO-SBP-LAX, in X class. The first of those two segments has two cabins. The second passenger on my booking is UA Gold. I'm seeing the same CPU message on the reservation.

My hope is that X/I class opens on SFO-LAX, but assuming I'm stuck with what I've booked, it would be quite nice to get an upgrade on that short segment. It's showing F9 right now, so it seems wide open.

However, the wiki says "no companions". I'm clearly just a companion here, and yet it says we've requested a CPU.

Anyway, just offering this as a data point. I have zero expectation of anything.

1KChinito

Please come back and update us.

canadiancow

(Un)fortunately, the I2 opened on the flight this morning (it was also R8), so I'm now confirmed in I class, and will be unable to provide any updates on whether a CPU would have worked.

1KChinito

Congratulations. Thank you for your update.

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WineCountryUA

This has been previously reported -- something in UA's system when deciding on CPU does not see this as an award flight when booked with certain partner programs. So you get your 1K CPU benefit (on this partner's awards)

danielflyer

I'm a holder of the United Club Card, which allows me to receive CPUs on award tickets according to the United website. Does anyone know if this applies to all award tickets, including tickets booked through KrisFlyer or Aeroplan, or does this only apply to award tickets booked through United?

I would assume the fare class is what matters and that United would not care, but the devil is often in the details with things like this.

aacharya

A few issues:

1. If you book with another FFP's miles, that number is encoded on the ticket, not UA MP. You then need to change it to UA MP.
2. I don't remember if, like bag fees, you have to pay the award taxes on the card. Obviously, that's easy to do, but obviously can't be done after the fact.

jsloan

I'm pretty sure that the perk itself is only intended to apply to awards booked through MileagePlus.

That said: there have been several reports of people getting CPUs on tickets booked through other FFPs even without a qualifying credit card, so you may get lucky.