Best way to find United award travel opportunities for international travel upgrades using PlusPoints?

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You can search for confirmed vs waitlisted upgrades in the advanced search selecting PointsPlus as the upgrade mechanism but I’ve also had super helpful agents so the same.

Assuming you’re Global Services because otherwise you can’t use PlusPoints on awards:

Expert Mode and look for PZ or PN over 0.

D1 Yep, only possible for 1k on a revenue ticket, though all non-basic economy fare classes are eligible now (with different rates required based on the fare class, but this is an improvement over GPUs which couldn’t be used on cheaper fares).

As cheap as tickets are now, I haven’t seen widespread availability in PZ for upgrades (PN is a Global upgrade bucket). But yes, you can always waitlist.

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