A big H/T to FlyerTalk’s ClaudiSTR who shared this nugget of great information based on her conversations with the UA Mileage Plus’ 1K desk.
It appears that beginning on August 1 (or thereabout), Mileage Plus members who wish to use a Global Premier Upgrade certificate will be able to do so electronically when booking or updating a reservation. Up to this point, a paper certificate had to be requested from United which would be mailed to the Mileage Plus member. The certificate would then need to be presented to the LH team at the airport on the day of travel for processing. With this new change, all of that goes away (finally!!)
I don’t have too many more details at this point as far as how this affects transferring the GPU to someone else or what the exact process will look like once launched. If I learn anymore, I’ll pass it along.
If anyone has any other insights into this great change for UA Mileage Plus members, please share them!
This is great news! Especially important post 3-1-15.
I have been pretty successful (11 of 12 attempts) at using UA GPU’s on LH, so hopefully this doesn’t actually effectively become a downgrade.
This may keep more people loyal to UA
now to wait for AA and BA to do the same
DL allowed upgrades to AF from permium eco to C for their SWUs
This is overdue
If you are “metal neutral”, you have to provide equal benefits
esp if you insist on watching MQDs annd PQDs and EQDs on the ticket stock.
So if you book a “UA” flight with a UA ticket on LH, and get PQDs, you should be allowed to use SWUs for upgrades
I would welcome LH UA allowing equal benefits for HON and GS to upgrade from C to F
and 1K/PP and SEN to go fro Y to C with miles or SWU or either one