Most expensive UA ticket
Feb 21, 2001, 11:58 am
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Most expensive UA ticket
I was wondering what the most expensive ticket UA sells. I didn't do much of a search but it looks like a first class round trip ticket from SYD to EZE would run close to $19,000 USD. Can anyone top that?
Feb 21, 2001, 12:03 pm
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While not UA, a few months ago QF had TLL-SYD in coach (full YRT fare) shown at about $91,000 on Expedia (I've made a printout)!!! I Mistakes happen in both directions (the same route, same fare code, was offered at $375 for a week or so, and *regular* YRT fare is about $5,000).
Feb 21, 2001, 12:13 pm
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What about their around the world service that starts at LAX, goes through IAD to LHR and then forges onward through Europe/Asia. I imagine an FC ticket on that can't be too cheap...
Feb 21, 2001, 1:09 pm
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Just a quick search for a first class United-only flight on Thursday (returning Sunday)... and I came up with:
LAX/LHR = $10,760
JFK/HKG = $11,238
PHX/LHR = $12,329 (via ORD)
IAD/SYD = $13,765 (via LAX)
Naturally, I'm assuming these prices would be higher during the peak travel months...
LAX/LHR = $10,760
JFK/HKG = $11,238
PHX/LHR = $12,329 (via ORD)
IAD/SYD = $13,765 (via LAX)
Naturally, I'm assuming these prices would be higher during the peak travel months...
Feb 21, 2001, 1:37 pm
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Originally posted by ORD12:
Just a quick search for a first class United-only flight on Thursday (returning Sunday)... and I came up with:
LAX/LHR = $10,760
JFK/HKG = $11,238
PHX/LHR = $12,329 (via ORD)
IAD/SYD = $13,765 (via LAX)
Naturally, I'm assuming these prices would be higher during the peak travel months...
Just a quick search for a first class United-only flight on Thursday (returning Sunday)... and I came up with:
LAX/LHR = $10,760
JFK/HKG = $11,238
PHX/LHR = $12,329 (via ORD)
IAD/SYD = $13,765 (via LAX)
Naturally, I'm assuming these prices would be higher during the peak travel months...
Feb 21, 2001, 4:01 pm
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You can easily price random and silly tickets through UA reservations and get ridiculus prices. An example can be SYD-EZE-LHR-DEL-EZE-SYD... that comes up quite expensive in F class.. as with any crazy combo.... so there really isn't a limit on how expensive a ticket can be...
Feb 21, 2001, 4:20 pm
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Originally posted by tfung:
You can easily price random and silly tickets through UA reservations and get ridiculus prices. An example can be SYD-EZE-LHR-DEL-EZE-SYD... that comes up quite expensive in F class.. as with any crazy combo.... so there really isn't a limit on how expensive a ticket can be...
You can easily price random and silly tickets through UA reservations and get ridiculus prices. An example can be SYD-EZE-LHR-DEL-EZE-SYD... that comes up quite expensive in F class.. as with any crazy combo.... so there really isn't a limit on how expensive a ticket can be...
On a side note, tfung so did you have success getting your CX/UA F class RTW ticket ex-BKK? (so cheap!!)
It is also cheap ex-Canada (CAD 6110)
Feb 21, 2001, 7:36 pm
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Originally posted by daniellam:
Well, if you ask UA reservations to "manually" price the above itinerary in F ("A" Class actually) with a slight modification SYD-EZE-LHR-DEL-SIN-SYD as a Star Alliance RTW, the price is actually less than the round trip fare !!
On a side note, tfung so did you have success getting your CX/UA F class RTW ticket ex-BKK? (so cheap!!)
It is also cheap ex-Canada (CAD 6110)
Well, if you ask UA reservations to "manually" price the above itinerary in F ("A" Class actually) with a slight modification SYD-EZE-LHR-DEL-SIN-SYD as a Star Alliance RTW, the price is actually less than the round trip fare !!
On a side note, tfung so did you have success getting your CX/UA F class RTW ticket ex-BKK? (so cheap!!)
It is also cheap ex-Canada (CAD 6110)
anyhow, my travel agent in BKK said that he got them to let him ticket my itinerary.. but he still hasn't done it yet.. so.. I dunno
Feb 23, 2009, 4:55 pm
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I was looking at our company's flight costs. There were a few exec's who get to fly F and their tickets to asia were around $9.5k per ticket. Most expensive was $14.5k. Funny these guys won't give up their F class tickets when we are laying off 20% of the company.
Mar 17, 2010, 11:53 am
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DEN-NAN
I was pricing DEN-NAN in F and got some 25k-27k fares. $27,942.00 (before taxes & fees) DEN-LAX-AKL-NAN RT. First, Refundable.
About 6k in a combination of L and Y (no cheaper buckets available on .bomb for the date ranges I played with).
EDIT: Maybe this shouldn't count since it is not all on UA metal.
PS - Posting here b/c I linked in through a recent "most expensive Y fare", not to just randomly dig up an old thread.
About 6k in a combination of L and Y (no cheaper buckets available on .bomb for the date ranges I played with).
EDIT: Maybe this shouldn't count since it is not all on UA metal.
PS - Posting here b/c I linked in through a recent "most expensive Y fare", not to just randomly dig up an old thread.
Last edited by bmustaf; Mar 17, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Mar 17, 2010, 12:52 pm
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Interesting thread. I was excited to see the term '.bomb' in the midst of a ten-year-old thread; but alas, it was from a contemporary post. Thought I had made a true linguistic discovery... 
Mar 17, 2010, 12:59 pm
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Hahaha, yeah, when this thread was started .bomb was probably just a figment in mind of some UA project team. I can picture them in my mind slaving away at creating the "features" we know and love today!
I don't remember what ua.com looked like in 2001/2002, I wonder if I have print outs filed somewhere. That'd be a neat new trivia/useless thread
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I don't remember what ua.com looked like in 2001/2002, I wonder if I have print outs filed somewhere. That'd be a neat new trivia/useless thread
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Mar 17, 2010, 1:50 pm
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I was pricing DEN-NAN in F and got some 25k-27k fares. $27,942.00 (before taxes & fees) DEN-LAX-AKL-NAN RT. First, Refundable.
About 6k in a combination of L and Y (no cheaper buckets available on .bomb for the date ranges I played with).
EDIT: Maybe this shouldn't count since it is not all on UA metal.
PS - Posting here b/c I linked in through a recent "most expensive Y fare", not to just randomly dig up an old thread.
About 6k in a combination of L and Y (no cheaper buckets available on .bomb for the date ranges I played with).
EDIT: Maybe this shouldn't count since it is not all on UA metal.
PS - Posting here b/c I linked in through a recent "most expensive Y fare", not to just randomly dig up an old thread.
Mar 17, 2010, 2:00 pm
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January 2001
http://web.archive.org/web/200101190...ww.united.com/
May 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/200205240...ww.united.com/
Ah, I remember that united.bomb. Compared to today, that site truly was a bomb.
Mar 17, 2010, 9:28 pm
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this is the winner
I have just searched united.com and found $48,500+ round trip fare for PVG-LAX-SYD in F.
Cheapest economy class fare is $1,500 for 3/31-4/7 in K class. Not bad.
Cheapest economy class fare is $1,500 for 3/31-4/7 in K class. Not bad.