US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Ticket UA ticket at US ATO using vouchers?

I've got some vouchers to use up (a $200 bump voucher and a $75 CS voucher), and the flights I want are significantly cheaper on UA than US. Even if I book the same UA metal flights with their US flight numbers, they are $200 more.

I also can't book the UA flight numbers directly on usairways.com.

Let's say I create a PNR on ual.com, or better yet, a booking engine that uses Sabre, and hold it with the UA flight numbers and price... Can I then go to the US ATO and have them ticket it using my vouchers?

(And yes, I know I can't use more than one voucher per ticket, it's actually two tickets, so I will apply one voucher to each ticket if I need to).

I've got some vouchers to use up (a $200 bump voucher and a $75 CS voucher), and the flights I want are significantly cheaper on UA than US. Even if I book the same UA metal flights with their US flight numbers, they are $200 more.

I also can't book the UA flight numbers directly on usairways.com.

Let's say I create a PNR on ual.com, or better yet, a booking engine that uses Sabre, and hold it with the UA flight numbers and price... Can I then go to the US ATO and have them ticket it using my vouchers?

(And yes, I know I can't use more than one voucher per ticket, it's actually two tickets, so I will apply one voucher to each ticket if I need to).

I would have to guess no since the ticket would be on US Ticket Stock with a 037 prefix. Also I believe on both the bump voucher and the CS voucher it says only valid on US Metal.

Ok, so, let's say I finally found the flights I want at the price I want (which I haven't, it's still $100 cheaper at Orbitz than USAirways.com). :mad:

How the heck do I hold the reservation on the website so I can run up to the ATO and ticket it? There's no option to hold it anymore, only to purchase now. :confused:

Call Res to hold it - its the only way to do it now.

-JC

Call Res to hold it - its the only way to do it now.

US Airways: not only does our website SUCK, we take away features to make it even more useless! :mad: :mad: :mad:

I wish I had more hands so I could give the website :td: :td: :td: :td:

LOL, so I emailed US Airways to ask them to bring back the hold button.

On the "Email Web Support" link, it says "We will respond within 24 hours."

After submitting the email, it says "You should receive a response by email from our support department within the next five business days."

I don't know why I even bothered, as I'm sure I'll get a canned response telling me about I save $5-30 by using their awesome website and not addressing the issue.

I liked it too, but it makes little business sense for US to offer the option of holding a reservation for a day. That just takes the seats out of inventory and generates zero revenue, whereas someone else might want to puchase those seats right away. That's why almost nobody else offers it either. (United will do it for its top-tier elites, I hear.) Incidentally, the relatively new 24-hour cancellation policy is the functional equivalent of a 24-hour hold. If you like it, buy it. Think about it for 24 hours. If you don't want it, return it. (You can even cancel online hasse-free.) No obligation.

That said, it makes no sense that you can't redeem vouchers online while purchasing a ticket. Maybe if you buy the ticket & then go within 24 hours to the ATO and ask them to pseudo-cancel it and apply the vouchers to the price? The res desk people should be able to tell you how to handle it.

David

I've got some vouchers to use up (a $200 bump voucher and a $75 CS voucher), and the flights I want are significantly cheaper on UA than US. Even if I book the same UA metal flights with their US flight numbers, they are $200 more.

I also can't book the UA flight numbers directly on usairways.com.

Let's say I create a PNR on ual.com, or better yet, a booking engine that uses Sabre, and hold it with the UA flight numbers and price... Can I then go to the US ATO and have them ticket it using my vouchers?

(And yes, I know I can't use more than one voucher per ticket, it's actually two tickets, so I will apply one voucher to each ticket if I need to).

You can only use US issued vouchers for tickets involving a US published fare. Generally speaking, the flights you book must carry a US flight number. It can probably be a US marketed/UA operated or US marketed/US operated. You can't use the voucher on a UA flight number.