Originally Posted by chollie

I couldn't get it all in the thread title.

I've spent 3 days, four phone calls (last one two+ hours) and had three bookings fall apart trying to book one ticket (UA + CA). UA claims CA forces a 'Y' booking class on the UA flights, which practically doubles the UA flights.

So....I'm going to book two separate tickets. How much time should I allow in PVG to be safe? (I'm flying to/from PVG because I don't want to be on UA's overhead screen 747).

I'm tentatively looking 48 hours in PVG on the outbound and 24 hours on the return. Is this likely to be enough?