I have booked United international flight for my parents as their visa is expiring and they need to leave US this month. They are seniors with health conditions and I am looking for upgrade options. PM me if you can help me to upgrade their flight using United PlusPoints. Thanks!

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No harm in asking. Me and many of my friends ended up having tons of RPUs and GPUs expire without using them before. Plus with COVID most people are not flying, so a good portion will likely expire.

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OP - what kind of help are you requesting?

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Our “services”

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Umm its confusing op.. you say u dont have points but you want help about upgrading using points??

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Not anyone...the seats need to be in certain class for international flights. I think above W class. Also seats have to be available...

The initial request here is a little vague, but maybe some comfort for if they stay in Economy...

I flew across the Atlantic a couple weeks ago. The flight was maybe 25% full. Although it was relatively densely populated (maybe 50%) in the back half of Steerage where I and the others plebs sat, the first half of Steerage was super sparse. So we actually spread out across the whole Economy cabin, and plenty of people were literally laying down across four seats and making them a bed, and flight attendants didn’t care.

In other words, lots of room if you’re traveling internationally right now, and probably room to spread out even in different sections.

I wasn’t on United but I suspect this is the general deal right now.

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If you have used point to book economy they won’t give you the option to upgrade to business or first - but for a small fee they let you upgrade to economy plus - 250 for one way one person

Check on the economy fare class as not all economy tickets are upgradable even if you decide to use points or someone lends or donates you points.

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If you have the points (think creatively with AMEX, etc.), just booking business class award tickets is probably your best bet. And push them to wear N95 masks the entire flight (ones without valves).

Thanks but unfortunately I don’t have that many points.

Did you book basic economy? If so, you can’t upgrade. What’s the flight number and date? I can look to see if there’s any upgradable seats. Youll need to be in a certain economy class to upgrade with GPUs

Thanks everyone for your inputs. To clarify- I am looking for someone with spare PlusPoints which can be used to upgrade my parent’s flight. Thanks!

United confirmed that anyone can upgrade this booking and will need 40 PlusPoints per person. Let me know if anyone can help. (Happy to pay reasonable price)

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