January 19, 2017, 10:03 am
About a week ago I was able to "score" a FC seat on United's Pacific operation for 80K whereas the standard on the route is 195K. I happened to have 102K, leaving me with 22K. I booked my wife for this seat.
At this moment, there are no seats available for the 80K, but if one does open up, I'm wondering if I can hold it long enough to "buy" more mileage? I would need to buy 58K which appears to be available on United website for $1500. This method seems to be a bargain because the fare on the route for a FC seat is $4900.
What i'm wondering is could I hold the seat long enough to buy 60K, get it into my account and wrap up another FC seat on the flight for myself?
I don't want to end up paying for the miles if the "held" seat goes bye-bye. It appears that UAL charges around $13 to hold a seat, but it doesn't seem to say how long the hold is for.
Anyone else successfully do something like this?
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January 19, 2017, 10:25 am
Wife and I are looking to do a trip late-May/early-June to celebrate our anniversary. We'd like to go in the Pacific direction since we have been to Europe many times. We would also like to go to two different places (hence a 'triangular' itinerary).
Our first thought was OGG and TYO, but using united's multi-city search for OMA-OGG/OGG-TYO/TYO-OMA always yields really expensive fares for some of the legs.
The other alternative would be to book two round trips OMA-OGG-OMA and OGG-TYO-OGG, leaving a big enough time gap at OGG on the return, but I'm not sure if this would violate any united rules.
Also, we are not committed to OGG and TYO, if we found two other places where the triangle priced out nicely that would work too. We are also very flexible on dates.
Any thoughts/insights/help would be appreciated.
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January 19, 2017, 12:24 pm
I just read through the nightmare thread, and I'm getting concerned about a business saver award ticket I booked for my wife for IAH-BOM. Her outbound is on LH, but her return is BOM-PEK-IAH on Air China. The layover is 3h 25m. I thought with CA being in Star, it should be ok, but having read the warnings about "never connect in Mainland China" and how Chinese airlines may not honor award tickets, I'm now concerned, especially since she'll be by herself.
Should I be trying to figure out another return itinerary? Or am I overreacting?
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January 19, 2017, 1:29 pm
Wife and I are starting in EWR, going to LHR, and coming back to LAX via MP points (Saver) end of September.
We're looking to add a nonstop stopover destination in Europe, either before getting to London, or after London/before Los Angeles.
Probably only staying about 3 days at this mystery stopover.
We'd prefer somewhere we haven't been before, which means we'd prefer NOT:
Barcelona
Paris
Berlin
Nice
Florence
Vienna
Prague
We'd prefer (but not require) a city/country we haven't been to, and since we aren't staying too long, we'd like to just stay in and explore one city.
The most logical place for us to do is MUC since it'll be Oktoberfest, but the wife MIGHT be pregnant by then and that seems mean ;)
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January 19, 2017, 6:49 pm
Got lucky the past few years, either with the sale, or just good fares. They're already pretty decent, but wondering if there's any scuttlebutt if there'll be a real summer biz class sale this year. Scored RT to Europe for 5 of us 2 years ago for under $1800/seat during the sale.
Wondering if I should wait, or maybe even try Norwegian this year to eastern Europe. Not lay flats, but haven't done a 787 yet so that would be novel.
Lifetime plat on AA too, but they've suddenly become the absolute high cost producer on almost every route.
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January 19, 2017, 7:37 pm
It seems UA has taken several flights that I used frequently off of their schedule. Specific examples include:
1) The 10:something PM IAD-DEN flight. This was great for being able to get a full day of work in in DC and still get home the same night...
2) The later west coast - FRA flights. These were perfect for getting sleep on the plane and combating jet lag. Now it seems the options are a 2pm departure on UA or a 4:20ish pm departure on LH...
3) The late, late night IAD-LAX flight. See #1...
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January 20, 2017, 12:05 am
Hi - I'm booking a flight from MAD>FRA>IAD with UA miles, taking about 7 bags plus a pet in the hold. Does anyone know if LH at MAD will likely/should apply LH baggage rates or attempt to apply UA rates? I have both rate schedules so I can see what they are. Thanks.
PS: Right now it's 80K miles for LH/UA. Travel is at end of March. I'd actually prefer LH all the way so am thinking about changing the second flight if LH F opens up for FRA>IAD. If it does, is it usually the same total mile price or does taking LH F transatlantic bump up the price with UA miles? Thanks.
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January 20, 2017, 8:10 am
I recently tried to take advantage of a really low fare ( < US$400) to buy a return ticket from BOS to CHP using the UA website. I am new to UA (20 plus years flying AA and oneworld) so I got caught off guard when the itinerary hadn't ticketed after 24 hours because of a lack of confirmation from one of the participating Star Alliance partners (Air Canada). I then called UA (fearing, apparently incorrectly, that my 24 hour cancelation window was about to close) and the telephone agent ticketed the itinerary.
I noticed the last segment (YYZ-BOS) had no PQM credit (even though it had been listed as having 500 miles when I initially booked the reservation). The UA agent was unable to explain this to me other than to say (wrongly) that the K class UA code-share ticket on AC metal didn't qualify for PQM accrual. I then looked at the confirmed reservation a little more closely and saw that what had been described as a schedule change on the YYZ-BOS segment was actually listed as a carrier change with Air Seoul metal now providing the last leg of my itinerary.
No one I spoke with at UA after that claimed that they could see Air Seoul in the reservation. Nothing I could find on Expedia or the Air Canada website suggested that Air Seoul actually flies (or will be flying) this route.
So I canceled the reservation and, a day or so later, started from scratch again without putting Air Canada into the mix.
Nonetheless, I am wildly confused. In all of my years booking travel on line and over the phone with AA, I never had an experience even vaguely approximating this.
Did I just really get unlucky or is this kind of anomaly common when booking flights on non-UA carriers using the UA website?
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January 20, 2017, 11:20 am
Didn't make 1K for 2017 and wound up as Platinum.
Got my offer this morning. ~$4500.
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January 20, 2017, 2:48 pm
This amount of rain is unheard of.... What do you think will happen?
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January 20, 2017, 3:26 pm
- Newark, NJ (EWR Liberty)
- New York, NY (JFK Kennedy)
- New York, NY (LGA LaGuardia)
- Philadelphia, PA (PHL)
- White Plains, NY (HPN)
Flight changes:
The change fee and any difference in fare will be waived for new flights departing on or before January 26, 2017, as long as travel is rescheduled in the same cabin (any fare class) and between the same cities as originally ticketed.
UA is really getting proactive with travel waivers.
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January 20, 2017, 3:39 pm
FA on an ex-IAD intl flight tells me that newspapers have been cut from intl service as of Jan 2017.
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January 20, 2017, 6:33 pm
just read about this on AMS-IAD
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3c3e6f&opt=0
Summary - UA946 (B764) IAD-AMS --Aircraft's captain became unconscious and aircraft diverted to SNN. Captain taken to hospital, no further info.
hope the captain is ok!!!
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January 20, 2017, 7:59 pm
Every year from Jan 01 to Mar 06 the redeye flight from SAN to IAD disappears. This is a planned UA route change. Where does this metal go during these 9 weeks. What is the required route that makes this particular route impossible to fly.
I fly SAN to IAD weekly and it is ALWAYS full. So this is not a late winter passenger capacity on the route issue.
Basically during these 9 weeks I am required to fly SAN-EWR-IAD. Yuck.
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January 20, 2017, 8:09 pm
I am looking at flying IAD-ACC and among the results .bomb is returning are 2 identical itineraries, IAD-BRU-ACC, with IAD on UA and BRU-ACC on SN. The difference between the two being one itinerary has all UA flight numbers and the other has a SN flight number for BRU-ACC. I don't recall ever seeing this before. Is this something new?
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January 20, 2017, 9:08 pm
I had a really strange experience tonight on this flight.
Had a ticket YYZ-IAH-LAS with a 40 minute connection in IAH. Tight but doable.
As per normal, we precleared US immigration and customs in Toronto so the flight should have landed at a domestic gate in Houston.
About mid flight they changed our arrival gate from B to E but I didn't think anything of it.
At the gate someone came on board an announced that everyone must go though US immigration and claim their luggage. There was of course nearly a riot on board with people thinking that a) this was a mix-up and b) most people would be missing connections.
They routed us up through to international arrivals, but rather than process us (again) through immigration they instead did a cursory passport check. We had to wait for bags, and then all bags were scanned through the X-ray machine before we could exit.
Needless to say we missed the connection, but United did give us a hotel voucher and $40 each in food vouchers.
There were lots of "jokes" during this process of "Welcome to the Trump regime".
We asked a United agent if she knew what was going on, and and she just said "there was a security breach and US immigration is demanding this".
Anyone know if this was an isolated incident or did it affect other Canadian flights tonight?
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January 20, 2017, 9:23 pm
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January 19, 2017, 10:25 am
Wife and I are looking to do a trip late-May/early-June to celebrate our anniversary. We'd like to go in the Pacific direction since we have been to Europe many times. We would also like to go to two different places (hence a 'triangular' itinerary).
Our first thought was OGG and TYO, but using united's multi-city search for OMA-OGG/OGG-TYO/TYO-OMA always yields really expensive fares for some of the legs.
The other alternative would be to book two round trips OMA-OGG-OMA and OGG-TYO-OGG, leaving a big enough time gap at OGG on the return, but I'm not sure if this would violate any united rules.
Also, we are not committed to OGG and TYO, if we found two other places where the triangle priced out nicely that would work too. We are also very flexible on dates.
Any thoughts/insights/help would be appreciated.
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January 20, 2017, 2:48 pm
This amount of rain is unheard of.... What do you think will happen?
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January 20, 2017, 3:26 pm
- Newark, NJ (EWR Liberty)
- New York, NY (JFK Kennedy)
- New York, NY (LGA LaGuardia)
- Philadelphia, PA (PHL)
- White Plains, NY (HPN)
Flight changes:
The change fee and any difference in fare will be waived for new flights departing on or before January 26, 2017, as long as travel is rescheduled in the same cabin (any fare class) and between the same cities as originally ticketed.
UA is really getting proactive with travel waivers.
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