My United Upgrade Instruments (SWU/CR-1) Are Going to Expire - What Are my Options?
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Thanks to all
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Now all I need is to hear is that my SWU cleared for SFO-HKG on 11/19 and it will be a perfect day!
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I was sponsored via .bomb last April for my wedding in Taiwan. NRT>TPE and TPE>NRT cleared immediately. LAX>NRT and NRT>LAX legs took a little longer, but still cleared several days before the flight.
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I sent an email to 1K voice a couple of weeks ago asking them if I could sponsor some of our very deserving service men and women traveling home for the holidays since I have 9 SWU that are going to expire. No response at all, I thought they'd be all over that.
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I wonder how your friend got this done. After seeing this post, I wrote United on Tuesday and requested just one of my 3 December expiring SWUs and they flatly rejected the request.
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The exchange is not standard UA policy and there probably a memo out now reminding agents of that.
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In recent years, in November, UA has offered to extend one (1) SWU to April, we have to wait and see if they do that this year. Otherwise you will not get an agent to extend SWUs.
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Yeah, that's probably as likely of an explanation as any. I have 3 expiring in December. I'll try to find a way to burn them though. My brother is flying IAD-FCO in a few weeks, so hopefully he can use one of them. I'll try to get to HNL or somewhere in Europe before the end of the year to burn the last 2. Not how I'd normally like to use an SWU, but it beats losing them.
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If only there was a way to find paid-C passengers on a particular flight ... I could use my extra SWUs to sponsor their upgrade to F, opening up a seat for my waitlisted W-to-C upgrade on ORD-LHR in a few weeks.
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I am hoping to get one of my two unused SWUs extended into February or even March/April. Today I was able to have the other one put towards a domestic transcon 777 flight I have booked for December and had upgraded with a CR1. The CR1 was put back into my account and will expire in June and one of my SWU was put against that booking. I do have one other SWU being used for a transPac in January but only the domestic flight was confirmed in C (NC), so I hope the Pacific flights get upgraded prior to departure or at the gate. Return has all been confirmed, so may have one more with 2-weeks left in January!
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I was on IAD-FRA in paid C fare and was unable to use my SWU for upgrade to F both ways in mid October. So even this route is tough.
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What to do with soon to be expired SWU's??
Hi there,
I still have several SWU's, which are about to expire between February and Apil.
My current travel plans are on non UA/Lufthansa flights, so i think i will not make use of them.
Any suggestion how to make good use of these?
Is it allowed to trade SWU's against miles (i am sure selling is against policy)?
I still have several SWU's, which are about to expire between February and Apil.
My current travel plans are on non UA/Lufthansa flights, so i think i will not make use of them.
Any suggestion how to make good use of these?
Is it allowed to trade SWU's against miles (i am sure selling is against policy)?
Last edited by FlyinHawaiian; Feb 1, 2011 at 2:02 pm Reason: moved into existing thread