sbm12

Maybe.

If the purchase triggers a re-fare and puts you in a new fare bucket for travel then yes. If not, no. And it is generally not readily apparent which way it will go just from the offer screen.

copilot5

Not sure if this is a stupid question: I'm trying to book SYD-ZQN using UA miles. The only nonstop Air New Zealand flight has a crappy 7am departure time, which I prefer to avoid during a relaxing vacation. There's a 10:40am departure that's operated by Virgin Australia, codeshare with Air New Zealand. Am I able to book this using UA miles? I know I can't do it online since it doesn't show up in the search, but can I do it over the phone?

Thanks in advance!

WineCountryUA

No, what matters is the flight operator -- award flights are always booked under the flight operator's designation and only UA or *A or MP partners can be booked with UA MP miles.

love_to_travel

My company bought me a bulk ticket IAD-HNL. I called the 1K line to try and see how much it would cost to re-fare the ticket from U to some to some First Class fare, but the agent said it wouldn't let her even check how much that would cost.

She did say that if R space opened up (it's currently R0 but F7) I could use an RPU to upgrade.

Should I try to call again for a more knowledgeable agent or can bulk fares not be modified to a First Class fare?

WineCountryUA

Normally TA tickets can only be modified by the TA or you pay a fee to have UA take over the ticket. You need to check with your employer & TA if it is OK for UA to take control of the ticket.

BULK tickets are an issue for a numbers of reason such as not PQM earning and likely non RDM earning and reduced mileage earning . The actual ticket price is hidden and therefore what the agent stated is correct. Generally UA will not take over BULK Fare. Note - BULK fares are likely deeply discount from a more ticket of the same fare class.

Some BULK fares are non-upgradeable but fortunately sounds like yours is.

pointchaser93

Newb question on award booking.

I have found a Saver Business/First (2-cabin) award available on a CVG-ORD-BRU-BKK flight. The BRU-BKK leg is operated by TG. The award costs 80k miles indicating it is for First on a 2-cabin instead of Business on a 3-cabin. My question is about the TG segment. I can't see the seat map for TG on UAs website. If I book this how do I know what I will be getting on the TG leg? Will I be in first? Business if their plane is 3-cabin? TG leg is a 777-300. Thanks in advance.

WineCountryUA

Saver Business/First (2-cabin) (I/IN) will book into business on a 3-class aircraft. F on 3-class requires O.

williamsmj

A question about club access: I will be travelling tomorrow on a domestic UA itinerary. I am UA Silver. I am Turkish Airlines (*A) gold (and have a card to prove it). The miles will be credited to my UA account. Will I have lounge access?

I think the answer is yes, and perhaps I'm being obtuse, but I can't definitively make sense of either the *A or UA pages, which seem to be almost wilfully ambiguous on this matter.

aacharya

To be eligible to enter the lounge via a non-UA *Gold, the agents can ask that your BP show crediting to that particular FF.

Having said that, showing just your card might work.

As for the rules, the rules are pretty clear with respect to *G access on domestic itineraries. Those rules assume alignment of the FF card and the one being credited to on the BP.

anandrag

I have used *A dozens and dozens of times with it never having been same account as on my BP

aacharya

And there's plenty of anecdotal information where the lounge dragons are insistent on this matching.

mahasamatman

Basically, the definitive answer is maybe.

Motorskills

I hope this counts as a simple question.


Using miles, I have purchased an Award trip for my wife and I to Europe this summer.

The "outbound" is a partner flight from USA to Italy, with a short break in the UK in the middle. The return is from Italy to the USA, albeit leaving from a different Italian airport.

All legs are currently on partner Airlines, but all booked on the United website as a single itinerary.

IIRC, I tried to book that "outbound" as a separate stand-alone one-way Award trip, and I thought I had booked the "return" as a separate stand-alone one-way Award trip.

The reason for that was that I knew I would likely be making a change to the return itinerary at some point.

However the receipt I am looking at on United.com shows a single United Ticket Number covering all legs.

That said, the receipt includes a physical gap in the printout between the outbound and the return.


The outbound is in Saver Business
The return is in Saver Economy.

The reason is that at the time
a) there were no Saver Award Business seats
b) I couldn't afford Regular Award Business seats, didn't have enough miles.


I will shortly have enough miles to change that "return" segment, however it will be a completely different itinerary (and also in Regular Business Award).


The question is can I amend the return itinerary without affecting the outbound itinerary?

(i.e. if I amend the last part of the itinerary, does the whole ticket need to be reissued, and would that negate my Saver Business Award for the outbound)?


Thanks!

WineCountryUA

An award RT is a combination of one-ways. But only an RT is allowed to have >24 hour stopover. So as separate OWs you would have not been able to have the short break / stopover @ LHR. RT was needed to meet your requirement.

See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...d-tickets.html


yes, not a problem -- but there may be a fee for the change

More in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...5-forward.html

mm1984

SO I will have 100k UA points or so (50k from UA credit card, 50k from flying over the years) . RIght now i am silver, how much are these points worth?
THe whole PQM thing is very confusing. I am not planning on flying anywhere though apart from whatever i can get out of free flights.