Flying PEK-EWR on Sunday. Looks like J will be full, so contemplating a SDC to PEK-IAD. Am I right in thinking I can apply plus points to this after the SDC. Should I pull the plus points off the first reservation before doing this?

Quick Q:
And sorry if it has been answered upstream, work booked a ORD-BOS-ORD in Jan for me.. I immediately bit at buyup just after ticketing.. I can't see the buyup reflected in the PQPs in the booking.. Have I lost the PQPs from the buyup as I paid for the buy up in 2019?

We do not know what will happen if you do not remove the request for PEK-EWR. To be on the safe side, you remove the request from PEK-EWR before SDC and re-request upgrade for PEK-ORD afterwards.

Thanks for the advice. Definitely seems like an upgrade over the old system (right before 10 GS transfer onto my previously empty flight..)

How do you know they are GS?

I think you want posts # 827 and 829.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...embers-56.html

The 20 points were un-requested, but didn’t go back into my total. I had 240 total before the upgrade didn’t clear and after the 20 points disappeared from the “requested” list, the 240 did not increase to 260. Had to call and they redeposited, but had no explanation except a “glitch”.

Irrelevant since I’ll end the year with expiring points, but something to keep an eye on in 2020.

Wow, now I'm really confused. +P aren't deducted from your account until an upgrade clears (unlike RPUs/GPUs) so why would they be redeposited if an upgrade never clears?

That's exactly how it's supposed to work. The 20 points was never removed from your total (i.e., you never had 260 in the first place). This is a change from the way that GPUs and RPUs worked. GPUs/RPUs were deducted immediately and then redeposited if they didn't clear. +P are not deducted until / unless they clear. The only redepositing we should expect to see with +P is when you have a request with multiple point levels (e.g., with a domestic connecting flight and an international Polaris flight). In that case, the entire amount would be deducted if any segment clears, and then a refund will be made after the fact if the most expensive segment didn't clear. (e.g., AUS-SFO-HKG is a 40-point upgrade, but AUS-SFO is a 20-point upgrade; if AUS-SFO clears first, 40 posts are deducted. If SFO-HKG never clears, 20 points are refunded).

I just SDC'd from a two-segment journey (2nd segment cleared with +P's) to an earlier two-segment journey via the iOS app and no issues. The +P's haven't been redeposited yet, though. I will wait a bit. (FYI, I applied new +P's to the new SDC'd itinerary and the second segment cleared again).

While I prefer this method this has to be causing headaches for a lot people such as it did for zdog2x. Everyone was conditioned to the "old" method of applying an instrument and immediately having the miles/GPU/RPU deducted. My business partner just went had the same problem and ended up confused about what was left in his PP account with upgrades clearing and others not over a short period of time on multiple flights. With time I think people will get used to this new system but for now many are confused.

Learn something everyday on this forum! Guess I got an extra 20 +P that I won't be able to use j/k

Does anyone know what the maximum connection time is to require only one set of PPlus points

ie. if one does EWR-SFO-Asia with a same day 10 hour connection in SFO, will it require 40 points or 20+40 points?

By practical experience with asking agents nicely, it's transfer versus stopover which is 24h00 (international) or 4h00 (domestic/transborder) maximum. As far as the computer does it by itself, I've found it's the same as whether it draws your itinerary as one or two, and is about 12 hours.

Historically, the limit for use of a single GPU in this case was 12 hours. I d:oubt that has changed.