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Some interesting experiences with this fare, which I traveled on last weekend:
Online checkin at united.com was possible with my ticket. I received the standard OLCI reminder email 24 hours before my flight.
Strangely, during the OLCI process, I was able to make confirmed changes to my flights (both earlier and later options were available), something not normally available when I fly intl on cheap UA fares. I assume the BD codeshares threw the system for a loop?
Upon making the changes, my PNR reflected the new flights, which were booked as UA codes, whereas the original flights were on BD codes. The new UA flights were booked out of the same UA space as the BD code (ie V for V, W for W).
A possible caveat: once I made changes to my booked flights, the PNR ceased to match my ticket and I was unable to complete the OLCI process. However, nothing was mentioned at the airport when I checked in about the discrepency and I was checked in quickly and normally.
Upgrades using SWUs were offered, I did not attempt.
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Originally Posted by LilZeppelin
YYZC2, thanks for your input. Were non-stop flights offered to change for as well?
Good question - unfortunately, the answer is no. OLCI only gave me earlier options for my ticketed routing (LHR-IAD-ORD) when nonstops were clearly available.
A polite request at LHR however saw me put onto the nonstop, but I wouldn't count on that in the future. Possibly helping in that regard were the facts that my LHR-IAD flight was very full, I am a 1K, and am unbelievably charming.
Thanks for the update. I'm flying out his Saturday late afternoon (ORD-IAD-LHR) I've been told the IAD-LHR is oversold by 14. I'm thinking of taking the bump if I can. I'm not to sure what they would do with me as I'm only in LHR for 6hrs before I come back.
Thanks for the update. I'm flying out his Saturday late afternoon (ORD-IAD-LHR) I've been told the IAD-LHR is oversold by 14. I'm thinking of taking the bump if I can. I'm not to sure what they would do with me as I'm only in LHR for 6hrs before I come back.
I would be really interested to hear what happens with that if you take the bump.
For the people flying lhr-ord is everybody getting e+? I am going on the oct 6 and coming back on the 10th.I have called 3 times and keep getting the response that the flight has no availability even in e- to move seats. They keep telling me that it is only available at the airport on the day of check in. The rest of my flights have been assigned e+.
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Strangely, during the OLCI process, I was able to make confirmed changes to my flights (both earlier and later options were available), something not normally available when I fly intl on cheap UA fares. I assume the BD codeshares threw the system for a loop?
That IS truly bizarre. Did the system specifically say you could make the changes for free?
I just have very bad experiences with codeshare flights. More often than not, something goes wrong when airlines need to communicate between each other. I'd be afraid to change the flights here -- especially if that negated OLCI -- because I'd be afraid somebody would try to hit me up at the airport for a few hundred bucks for "making changes."
Yes, something like that actually did happen to me once, while flying UA no less (I had US-issued reward tickets that at the time allowed the free change, but since UA billed their own customers for changes, the UA ticket agent really, really wanted to charge me).
Bottomline, I don't trust UA with "anything weird."
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