Booking qualifying fares for Fall Elite on United.com
Oct 1, 2004, 4:07 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 11
Booking qualifying fares for Fall Elite on United.com
Per the request on the thread I am posting this in it's own thread:
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Just talked to some nice united.com folks. Apparently they just put a feature on the website that allows customers to plug in a "promotional code" to get qualifying fares for this offer. They suggested that you type in MPN094 into the Electronic certificate or promotion code box on the home page. I confirmed that it does indeed bring up M and higher fares. Make sure to use all CAPS when typing in MPN. Good luck fare shopping
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Just talked to some nice united.com folks. Apparently they just put a feature on the website that allows customers to plug in a "promotional code" to get qualifying fares for this offer. They suggested that you type in MPN094 into the Electronic certificate or promotion code box on the home page. I confirmed that it does indeed bring up M and higher fares. Make sure to use all CAPS when typing in MPN. Good luck fare shopping
Oct 1, 2004, 10:56 pm
#2
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: port broad reach
Programs: NorthSails® | Starboard | ION
Posts: 6,525
Awesome tip!!!
Thanks Flyinhigh :-:
It does work!!! It consistently returns >M fares, and often brings up non-qualifying alternatives (usually Q fares).
Warning: It does not necessarily return the lowest qualifying fare. For example, using this code, the search returned a $2,300 M fare to LHR, when a $1,400 B fare was available for the same flights. So before you book, also do a search using the upgradability option as a limiter.
Hey, maybe the website is improving after all... now if we could just get codes for all promotions
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It does work!!! It consistently returns >M fares, and often brings up non-qualifying alternatives (usually Q fares).
Warning: It does not necessarily return the lowest qualifying fare. For example, using this code, the search returned a $2,300 M fare to LHR, when a $1,400 B fare was available for the same flights. So before you book, also do a search using the upgradability option as a limiter.
Hey, maybe the website is improving after all... now if we could just get codes for all promotions
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Oct 2, 2004, 4:09 am
#3
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: EWR, PHL
Programs: UA1k 3MM, AA Plt, peasant on everybody else, elite something or other at a bunch of hotels.
Posts: 4,637
This is all nice, but ....
Can't they just put in a simple menu choice to limit options to a specific fare class? I mean, how hard can that be? I used to be able to do it on Sabre back in the early internet days.
Can't they just put in a simple menu choice to limit options to a specific fare class? I mean, how hard can that be? I used to be able to do it on Sabre back in the early internet days.
Oct 2, 2004, 9:24 am
#4
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: LAX
Programs: AA 2 MM Plt, *wood Plt
Posts: 652
Originally Posted by Flyinhigh
Per the request on the thread I am posting this in it's own thread:
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Just talked to some nice united.com folks. Apparently they just put a feature on the website that allows customers to plug in a "promotional code" to get qualifying fares for this offer. They suggested that you type in MPN094 into the Electronic certificate or promotion code box on the home page. I confirmed that it does indeed bring up M and higher fares. Make sure to use all CAPS when typing in MPN. Good luck fare shopping
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Just talked to some nice united.com folks. Apparently they just put a feature on the website that allows customers to plug in a "promotional code" to get qualifying fares for this offer. They suggested that you type in MPN094 into the Electronic certificate or promotion code box on the home page. I confirmed that it does indeed bring up M and higher fares. Make sure to use all CAPS when typing in MPN. Good luck fare shopping
Received error page with this message:
The travel dates selected are not valid for this program.
Oct 2, 2004, 10:03 am
#5
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Seattle
Programs: United Airlines Premier, Starwood Gold Preferred Guest, Hyatt Gold Passport, Club Carlson Gold
Posts: 356
So I guess UA management is reading the complaints here and is working to solve those problems.
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