Wife and I got CPU’ed to last 2 available F seats on MSY-EWR around T-minus 55 minutes or so. ^

At less than an hour before flight time you did not get a CPU (automated upgrade). You were upgraded by the gate agent who likely needed the coach seats to be assigned to someone else so he/she processed gate upgrades slightly early. Glad you got the upgrade though.

-RM

DEN-LAS (this evening) cleared sometime between 48 and 36 hrs. First was booked 10/16 prior to clearing. Must be a very elite (lite) flight, as the upgrade list currently only has one name not yet upgraded, the other 4 I'm assuming are non revs as they also show up on the standby list.

DEN-RIC on Jul. 29. CPU cleared before online check in opened up. My very first upgrade, CPU or RPU on this route our of 3 trips/6 segments YTD.

DEN-SFO tomorrow was up-gauged from a 788 to a 789. 12 more seats up front, cleared CPU at T-23.5. Seems the aircraft swap wasn't populated through the system fully, as I noticed the U/G list indicated a 789 as far out as 48 hours, but no upgrades were given until this window.

The following flights were CPU'd at T-96:

UA320, GRR-ORD, 8/1/18, 6:19 PM Departure (737-8)
UA1462, ORD-SFO, 8/1/18, 8:08 PM Departure (737-9)
UA394, SFO-LAS, 8/2/18, 6:52 PM Departure (737-8), my companion traveling on the same PNR was also upgraded at T-96

UA1800, LAS-SFO, 8/5/18, 3:20 PM Departure (737-9)

Cleared somewhere in between the boarding of groups 4 and 5. I was already in my E+ seat when the gate agent boarded and handed me a boarding pass for 1A.

Here are my stats for the year-to-date:

Total United Segments: 51
Total Segments Eligible for CPU: 45
Total Segments CPU'd: 22
Total Segments RPU'd: 5
Upgrade Frequency: 60%

Overall, not terrible, especially being based out of SFO.

Lax-ord-cvg, then cvg-den-lax, lax- ord no upgrade, ord-cvg cpu, yay

cvg-den, offered $120 upgrade which i took, Den-lax cpu cleared.

Yet another United devaluation.


/joking

I think this changed in Feb or Mar, actually!

It also now claims it doesn't know the seat assignment, even though it has made one.

What is—the email's subject line? :confused:

From "elite" to "premier."

I think that's something else—the reservation getting out of sync (for who knows what reason) when processing the upgrade. However, the CPU emails did indeed do the 'assigned upon check-in' before the subject line was changed, but at least my anecdotal experience is that it's doing it more frequently. In the app or on the website, the seat assignment works fine and does show, it just didn't print in the email.