[Edited to add: Thanks for everyone’s interest. Commenter #58 ended up being chosen and the upgrades are reserved in his name]
My international travel has been plotted through at least January next year and I have two United Airlines Systemwide Upgrade certificates available that I’d like to gift to someone, so who better than one of my readers? These SWUs are valid through January 31, 2012, so all segments using the upgrades must be completed by that date.
For anyone unfamiliar, systemwide upgrades can be used for a one-way upgrade to the next class of service on eligible United flights worldwide. They are most valuable on international flights, which requires the purchase of at least a W-bucket fare. They can also be used domestically on any published fare, and I have in the past burned them on United’s premium service p.s. flights where the Unlimited Domestic Upgrade program for elites doesn’t apply. I don’t care how you use them, I would just love to give them away. As with any award, upgrade space is capacity controlled and applying a SWU to an existing reservation doesn’t guarantee the upgrade. For more information on SWUs, check out the details on United’s website.
Interested? Just leave a comment (one comment per person) and be sure to plug in your email address so I can contact the person chosen randomly (via Random.org) this Saturday. As such, all comments must be received before 12:00pm MDT on Saturday August 13, 2011. Don’t worry if your comment gets held up in moderation… I’ll be sure to get it approved & posted live as soon as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at Darren@frequentlyflying.com.
This is a gift and I ask for absolutely nothing in return except I hope you’ll enjoy the upgrades (and they clear!).
Thanks!
Bump.
Thanks for the offer and your blog. Always a great read!
Thanks…very generous of you!
Thanks. Great blog! Always enjoy the read.
Count me in! 🙂 Thanks!
Thanks… Man this would be great for my NYE trip.
Great, thanks for the opportunity!
very generous of you.
Upgrade? Why, yes.
This is great! Thanks for the opportunity!
thanks!
Thanks for passing these along to your readers. I really enjoy your blog!
Would love one!
Thank you for your generosity!
Thanks, Darren! Nice gesture.
Crossing my fingers! Thanks!
Nice! Thanks!
This is such a generous offer, thank you so much! I would love to use the upgrade for my tickets to Beijing, China for Chinese New Years. I haven’t been home for Chinese New Years for 11 years and this would be wonderful. Thank you!
Xiao Li
I’m a newbie to the FF game this is my first comment. I hope to learn a lot and fly the world.
Me too! I’ve not set my calendar yet.
Thanks! Always nice to see the spirit of giving.
Great airline!
I took a bigger risk than this yesterday on those headphones. Count me in. Thanks!
Great blog. Thanks for the generous promotion.
Thanks for the nice gesture. May your blog readership grow leaps and bounds!
Can I leave my kids behind in coach? LOL
A very generous offer – thanks!
Thanks! what a great post
Awesome! Thanks for the offer!
Thanks for the gift.
I’m planning to fly across the pond, so it would be handy.
Crossing my fingers and hoping to get the certificate 😉
What an amazing gift! 🙂 Thanks!!!
and you will be rewarded with good karma
Thanks!!
ditto…
This is definitely a way to get my butt on United metal!
Makes me want to give something away as well! Thanks.
Thank you. Great offer!
Cool!
Thanks!
Thanks, and great blog!
Here’s to you and hoping to win!
So nice of you!
That is really nice of you! Thanks!!
Good times buddy!
Thanks. Could use it next week!
Terrific!
Nice incentive
very generous! keep up the good work
Very cool initiative!
cheers,
Ezra
Pretty awesome and mighty generous. Thanks
awesome thanks!
Thanks! This is awesome!
This is an awesome prize. Thank you!
Very nice!
Very cool, thanks
awesome!
Thanks! This is very generous of you.
Thanks!
Awesome! Very nice of you.
Thanks. It will help me a lot 🙂
Wow! This will b awesome if I could get one!
Love your blog! Very generous to gift these valuable upgrades!
Thank you! crossing fingers
Enjoy your blog. Thanks!
Would love these!!!
Thanks! Very Nice Gift!
Very generous of you, thanks!
Thanks — could use one!
Thanks for being such a generous person. This generosity along with the content is why I’m a reader for life.
Wow, Darren, mighty generous of you! I live near SFO but am a loyal AA flier…however, with their continual retreat from here, I’ve been eyeing United. If I won these, it would make checking them out that much easier 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Wow! Very generous of you! I’m taking my girlfriend on her first trans-Pacific flight next month SEA-NAR and this would be a great way to introduce her to a more comfortable level of travel. Thanks!
Your blog is a great resource.. and thanks for the offer! (I hope I score the SWUs! 🙂 )
Would love to try it on my January EU-US trip!
You are the man. Perfect upgrade for the honeymoon flights!!!
Great blog! would love to use them on an upcoming LH trip
Thanks!
Would really like to win the SWUs could take my SO on her first biz class trip
Thanks! Would most certainly be useful for a trip from SIN to PIT in 10 days time..
Thank you! That’s very nice of you.
Thanks! Would make an upcoming trans-Pacific flight amazing 🙂
Thanks!
Sweet idea! Enjoy the blog.
A SWU would be awesome to cap off my conversion to UACO…
Cool thanks for the kind offer!
Thank you!
Yay! This is a cool prize! Thanks!
Thanks a lot for this great opportunity.
My Dad has never flown First or Business. Thanks.
This would be great!
Danke aus Wien!
Wow…91 comments is a lot more than you usually get. I guess I’ll try to be a freeloader too.
Thanks for the opportunity to plot my next journey.
Thanks very much!
Wonderful! Thanks for this and your blog.
Pick me!…thanks
That’s awesome!
Great! In for one.
This would be great for my daughter’s trip from London to U.S. to take her FINAL professional architect’s exam!. Mary
sounds awesome
Thank you so much, Darren!
Thanks for the contest.
I’m in! Thanks.
This would be unbelievable for my December trip to Japan!
Great blog…great contest.
In it to win it!!!
Thanks
Good deal 🙂
Wuup Wuup. Going to SFO in September and would love to Upgrade!
Thanks,
Hi I would really really really appreciate an upgrade
Thanks.
We want to go to Australia!! This would be great!!!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Thanks!! 🙂
Thank you!
memememe.. pick me!! Cool thing for you to do! Thanks and good luck to someone!
Would love to get one.
I could use an upgrade on a United flight this December to Hong Kong from SFO.
Hopefully I will have a chance to use them on a flight to LA this fall from NYC!
Pick ne!
Cool Beans!
Terrific offer and thanks!
What an awesome giveaway! Thanks!
Thanks! I think I’ve gotta make a quick trip to see friends in Joburg & Windhoek.
My wife would be stoked. Im all in! thanks!
Generous offer – thanks!
Probably goig to the Czech Republic in December… An upgrade would be nice…
Awesome!
Thanks! And I just noticed – the commenting count starts back from 1 again after hitting 100!
That is very nice of you, thanks!
sweeet!
Would be so great. TPA -SYD in December! Crossing fingers! Thanks 😉
great blog and hope I win… never had a SWU before!
Thanks in advance! If you need them back sometime later, let me know….:-)
Cool offer…thanks in advance.
Thanks.
Sweet!
Very kindly! Thank you so much:-)
Fingers crossed! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! Thanks!
Thanks!
Hope I get it! I’ve got a long trip to Asia coming up. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for sharing!
Very generous!
Thanks for sharing,
Gerald
How generous of you! Would love them!
Thanks for the generous offer!
Awesome – thanks!
Hi, Please put me in for the contest! Also I frequently tweet about airlines, accessibility, etc. Right now an uproar in the accessibility blind community about some recent JetBlue developments. Feel free to email or tweet me for more details.
Memememememememememememe
Wow!
Those would come in very handy!
Perfect timing as we have upcoming travel on the LHA380. Thank you.
Thanks so much!
Love this blog.
What a generous offer! Thanks on behalf of whoever wins!
Thanks for the opportunity!
you are the best. Happy Trails!
Very generous of you! Sign me up!
Thanks for the blog and sharing the wealth!
I’m interested. Please put me in the pool!
Thank you – I’d like to throw my name in the hat. It’s very kind of you to share them!
What a great gesture. I’m headed to Oktoberfest in Germany in September and this would make the trip a really fantastic one.
you are by far the kindest to your fellow readers out there!
Sharing is caring i guess??
Hi Darren,
Thank you for this offer, I closely attend your blog and appreciate your work. Best of luck to the winner!
Darren
Thanks!
Very nice offer!
Very much interested…Thank you for your generosity. 🙂
Great offer. Thank you!
thanks! hope to hear from you soon!
ooohh… pick me! pick me! pick me!
Now that you are a AA elite you should give out some dAArkside upgrades too so your readers can compare!
planning a trip to australia,
would be awesome !
generosity befitting the kindness of karma gods!
Yes Please!
Thanks! Count me in!
Wonderful! Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d like to try my luck as well. 🙂
That is very generous of you. I’m sure that whoever wins them will enjoy the trip.
Thank you!
Thanks for thinking of your readers!
Pick me! 🙂
Awesome… Thank you!!
you the man Darren!
Thanks for nice thought!
Thanks, awesome gesture!
I’ve got my fingers crossed!
An upgrade would be awesome, thanks!
Awesome…thanks for offering them up!
An excellent benefit for your readers. Thank you!
Would love to Use the upgrades to visit the grandkids. Fly LAX-IAD all the time on 777 and its a surprisingly hard upgrade to business!
Thanks
!
You know this will probably be your most “popular” post now ;). Love the gesture.
thanks for the opportunity!!
Thanks for the offer – very generous of you!
Thanks! What a great offer to us blog readers!
I would love the certificate to use for my first time in the front!!
i’m in
Thanks for the offer and your great blog!
Please
Thanks! I have a trip coming up to Beijing where I could really use this! Best of luck to everyone!
I’ve to travel back to Europe in November (marriage of a family member) and would be quite happy if I could do this in business class. Thank you so much!
How generous – hope I’ll win!
Thanks for the offer. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Would you be willing to convert them to paper SWUs?
I’ve only been lowest-level elite before and never used SWUs. I’d be most excited to give it a shot and fly up front. This is a most generous offer.
Yea yea I’ll take it, if u are so insisting 🙂
Thanks, those would be great for my trip to NY
Very nice of you to offer this!
Nice offer–I’m in.
How generous 🙂
Thanks for your kind and generous offer!
Great way to thank your blog viewers!
right now, i have 1/112 odds of getting your nice gesture. i’m sure odds won’t get any better because of your following. thanks!
Please pick me!
Blog is a daily read for me. I even canceled my “First CXXXX FXXXX” monthly PDF subscription. You are quick, to the point and on the ball. Keep up the great work and may your followers post comments that benefit all of us FF. Let’s keep the great traveling moving into even better results for the FF and blog followers!
At 6’5 this would provide some great relief!
This would be great for my trip to Asia!
Always enjoyed your blog. Now a test of my luck.
*fingers crossed* and thanks for all the info you share.
Great attitude, we need more people like you.
Thanks for the giveaway.
This is a great opportunity. Thanks!
sweet!
Here’s my comment! Pick me!!
Sounds great; you’re very generous,
Ken
Taking our new born transatlantic in Dec. Hope u pik us 🙂
Darren, I just started reading your blog recently, and have already found it to be really informative. And now to top it all off, you’re super generous. Fingers crossed! 🙂
Nice of you.
Never won a contest but doesn’t hurt to try 🙂
wooooohooooooooo……
That’s a nice gesture! I flew transpac 4 times in as many weeks… SWUs would come in really handy for that next flight 🙂
Awesome offer! Thank you!!
Very kind gesture, even just reading this post puts a smile on my face (on an otherwise a very frustrating day), so I thank you 🙂
You ROCK! Thanks so much. Keep up the good work on your blog. Its very valuable. Cheers — Kathryn
excellent advice; great blog
Love the great tips…. Thanks for the contest!
Thanks for passing these along to your readers. I really enjoy your blog!
I know how happy my mother would be if she could fly business class for the first time in her life. 😀
Oh what a great gift from such a great blog!!!
Confirmed upgrade!!! yea…very nice gesture
Count me in!
This is an amazing opportunity and you are very generous to hand this off to your readers. I know we all appreciate it.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks for offering it. Very kind of you!
Would love one!
Very nice offer. Please keep us posted on the winner and the trip they choose.
Thanks! Gracious and kind of you. Love your blog!
Thanks
Thanks for the excellent offer
sign me up!
Thanks for the generous offer; put me in!
LOVE your blog!!!
Why not? I have not won anything since a steam iron at a milk plant opening 50 years ago. I’ll go! Thanks!
-C.
Thanks!
awesome! *grin* 🙂
Great blog! Thank you very much for this offer!
Nice! I’ve just started reading your blog and it’s helped me out a lot.
Awesome blag that I read daily! Thank you for the offer!
Thanks for this. I’d love one!
Thanks for the blog and SWU giveaway!
Enjoy the blog. Good luck to me.
I’d love to fly a little closer to the front of the plane when I visit my son in Europe this fall. Tugging at the strings a bit, I am a disabled combat vet…
Thanks – good deal.
I’m in!
Hope I win.
Would be great for our trip to Europe
Hoping to win!
Well, it’s high noon on Saturday, so comments are now closed & I’ll be posting the giftee momentarily. 🙂
Im getting married november 5th and am flying MCO-FRA and returning FRA-PHX back to work on our dairy. I could upgrade my continental flight but no upgrades are available! Plus my fiance is twenty and wont be able to enjoy a glass of champagne unless she gets some first class treatment. The avaialbe united upgrades would be amazing!
Hi Tommy, The time period for this giveaway has lapsed and the two upgrades are reserved for someone else, I’m so sorry. This reminds me I should update this post with that info, so thanks leaving your comment.
OOPS! hey I have 100,000 miles with my onepass account and i wanted to use them somehow to get an upgrade! do you have any ideas? do you think i would have a better chance getting a last minute upgrade if i choose a continental run flight?
Tommy
Are you booked on Continental or a combination of carriers. If all Continental, you might consider spending your miles and paying a co-pay amount (depending on your fare type) to waitlist for the upgrades if none are currently available. You have more than enough to apply for the upgrades. More information on Continental’s upgrade program can be found here.
I am learning alot by your blog. Looking forward to using Delta again. I’ve been a Continental frequent flyer for years. What this merger has done, hmmm. Thanks again. A new reader from The Great State of Texas!
This is very generous of you. Many thanks~
Thanks for the opportunity. Want to get to Paris soon and getting the upgrade would be great!
@Kate:
This promo expired almost a year ago..
“As such, all comments must be received before 12:00pm MDT on Saturday August 13, 2011.”