Changes to O/ON coming Feb. 1, 2013
Feb 18, 2013, 2:48 pm
#166
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Feb 18, 2013, 5:53 pm
#167
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I missed this thread earlier and got caught by surprise today. ExpertFlyer told me ON was available on a flight I'm watching, and .bomb showed ON2 O0. The website wouldn't let me book so I called in and learned the unpleasant news.
Feb 18, 2013, 11:04 pm
#168
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I ended up booking 3 F class RTs over the next 9 months. May not take them, but at least I have them held if I want them. This was the last chance we had for easy F awards to SYD.
Feb 19, 2013, 9:39 am
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Feb 19, 2013, 7:50 pm
#170
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IAD flights are mostly legacy UA with 3-class.
ON is only for upgrade from Business. All saver reward travel in UA F is from "O" for all elite tiers including GS.
Last edited by iluv2fly; Feb 19, 2013 at 8:58 pm Reason: merge
Feb 19, 2013, 9:30 pm
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I think ps9a was referring to reports of GS being able to call the GS line and request conversion of ON into O. This is similar to the pmUA ability to convert NF into XF. Not a published benefit, but then it never was. Good to see news of this benefit returning for GS.
Feb 20, 2013, 10:57 am
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Last edited by ps9a; Feb 20, 2013 at 11:17 am
Feb 23, 2013, 3:51 pm
#173
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From what I can see, this is turning out to be a major downgrade in Elite benefits - loss of ON reward.. Take LAX/SFO to SYD - No F rewards at first opportunity and I don't see J rewards either at first opportunity and certainly not increased as stated.
Feb 23, 2013, 5:59 pm
#174
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Yes the very generous last minute SaverFirst awards are now gone and sadly so then is my last good reason for flying United.
Apr 17, 2013, 4:46 pm
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Just booked a trip to Asia for May and was very pleased to see ON space available on both of my preferred flights. Now confirmed in GF with a BF price hitting the expense report.
Checked some other flights out of curiosity and found most flights had ON availability. Only found one flight out of a dozen or so with O space, however.
Checked some other flights out of curiosity and found most flights had ON availability. Only found one flight out of a dozen or so with O space, however.
Apr 17, 2013, 6:21 pm
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Just booked a trip to Asia for May and was very pleased to see ON space available on both of my preferred flights. Now confirmed in GF with a BF price hitting the expense report.
Checked some other flights out of curiosity and found most flights had ON availability. Only found one flight out of a dozen or so with O space, however.
Checked some other flights out of curiosity and found most flights had ON availability. Only found one flight out of a dozen or so with O space, however.
Apr 17, 2013, 7:16 pm
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May 7, 2013, 6:30 pm
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Heads up
No doubt another SHARES problem. I just had to phone in to change a December booking on a inter-EU LH trip which is part of a pre-Feb. 1st "ON" booked trip starting on UA. After 45 minutes on the phone getting the LH segments re-booked I logged in to see that my "ON" on UA had been changed to "I". Another 45 minutes and finally got it changed back into "F" but in "ON" again. I predicted this would be a problem and now have seen its fruition. Just yet another thing to monitor.