ung1

i've HUACA-ed 5 times, spent 2 hours on the phone, and am no closer to changing my ticket (on which I've already flown the outbound).

Problem is that it was paid for in a foreign currency, and so .bomb shows a fare difference (ca. $300) even though A class is available. This happened before when I changed dates and the rate desk manually overruled it and let me change for free.

Now I'm trying to add a stopover in NRT, and go via ORD instead of SFO. I get that theres a stopover fee and probably some extra airport charges, but because I'm changing the flights the agents keep telling me its because of this that I need to pay (now) $400 extra.

I am wondering whether I should just make the change online for $400, and then contact UA over email to explain why they should only charge me $100. Or by making the change am I accepting to pay whatever difference they want, and then not have a chance in hell of getting any money back?

Appreciate any advice!

cfischer

Looking forward to my IAD-NRT flight (NH1 ) in 7 weeks. Love to sample the First Square seats and have some Krug
Nice fare; will probably credit to M&M since UA is unwilling to honor the earnings for tickets booked prior to their announcement of miles/$

tyroner

From what I can determine, the new earnings on this fare for a BOS-SFO-ICN-SFO-BOS:

Mileage Plus (for 1K) ~18k
Miles & More ~50k
KrisFlyer ~25k

giggity32

Tryroner, that's what I got for KrisFlyer.

Btw, HUGE thanks to the OP for this amazing deal. I misconnected in IAD and the really nice UGF agents put me on NH. Wonderful flight!

cliburn

That is a nice mis-connect!

SFO777

+1
That's some upgrade! ^

kkg

Why does the currency in which you paid matter? Shall I worry as I paid in Singapore dollars?

ung1

I don't know, but it keeps showing me a fare difference both online and over the phone.

Does anyone know the fare conditions in relation to no showing on this? My return is booked for tomorrow but due to an emergency, can't travel. And I don't have 5 hours to try doing this on the phone with them, and it doesn't work tomorrow.

keloutwest

I completed most of this trip last year. However, I still have a remaining domestic leg to BOS that I was able to push out after landing at home in DEN. With that said, the date I pushed it to no longer works for me.

I wanted to see what online would (not) let me do, but to complicate matters there's been a schedule change, so before allowing me to try making a change, it wants me to agree to the new schedule.

Question: has anyone who stopped short of BOS changed the date of the final domestic leg?

ung1

I thought stopovers in the US weren't allowed on this fare.

Btw, after speaking to an agent again, I was told I can change dates as long as I don't change the routing, and then it won't incur a fare difference.

kellejil

I fly Monday, BOS SFO ICN. I have a short connection time and am connecting to a flight in ICN to CEB so don't want to miss my flight, has anyone had issues with this tight connection. When we booked it was closer to 90 minutes..... THaNKs

tyroner

Three of us had a tight connection and there was an agent on the jetway with our names. They brought us down to a Mercedes and drove us to the next gate. No problems.

kellejil

THANKS feel much better, weather is forecast good so should be okay!!

FlytheTail

I have this as BOS-EWR / JFK-SFO-ICN. Was hoping to SDC onto other flights (within 24 hours of departure) but no options were provided by a phone agent, airport agent, or online, without $X,XXX+ in additional fees. So although UA has kept these reservations, it seems as though they have exempted SDC.

legalalien

Online SDC doesn't work when more than two segments are left (unflown) in the direction you're currently going. In addition, the same fare class must be available on all new segments, A in our case. Are you sure the options were, in fact, available?

FWIW, I've done SDC online for the last inbound segment, ORD-BOS. It worked just like it does for any other itinerary.