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Old May 31, 2017, 10:05 am
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Cross Country Comfort: Introducing United Airlines' New Transcontinental Service

Premium transcontinental service EWR to/from SFOLAX and BOS to/from SFO (Boston service starting 1 July 2017)
  • Flat-bed seats with custom-designed duvet & pillow provided by Saks Fifth Avenue
  • New amenity kits featuring Soho House & Co's Cowshed Spa products
  • Featured cocktail, Moscow Mule
  • Hot towel service offered after take-off & prior to landing
  • Seasonally refreshed menus
  • Dining will be topped off with items from United Polaris' dessert menu.
  • Before arrival, snacks such as Boulder Canyon potato chips & Madik’s almonds will be served.
  • Note: These routes are not CPU eligible (with need to use RPU/GPU/Miles+copay)

Complimentary hot meal and beverage service for customers seated in Economy Plus.

Also adding United Club access before flight and after arrival, just like ps
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Old Sep 10, 2017, 1:33 am
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Originally Posted by diburning
Do you think the UC agents at SFO could do it after I fly the first segment? I have no status. If I call them now, would they be able to do it, or would there be a fee and/or fare difference? I'm booked in P, and it appears that P is now available on each segment.
your best chance is SDC and paying the fee in that case I guess w/o status. SDC often allows strange routings and I would not be surprised if it offered the flight back as 2 segments if P is available on both.
You can't break that flight in the middle (in SFO). Ask in LAX at check-in and see if they do it for you or not.
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Old Sep 10, 2017, 1:38 am
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Originally Posted by cfischer
if you book in advance there is a ton of availability. All of my BOS-SFO r/ts are $1100+
Do the advance purchase requirements for P fares on these routes require at least 30 days?
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Old Sep 10, 2017, 1:59 am
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Originally Posted by ocn2ocn
Do the advance purchase requirements for P fares on these routes require at least 30 days?
No. There are UP/UPDI fares with 21, 14, 7, 3, and 0 day AP requirements.
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Old Sep 10, 2017, 4:14 am
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Originally Posted by ocn2ocn
Do the advance purchase requirements for P fares on these routes require at least 30 days?
There are 21, 14, and 7-day P fares and a relatively cheap 3-day Z fare. I suspect this will be like EWR where they start out matching B6's amazing price and slowly give up until the only reasonable prices are 21-30 days out.
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Old Sep 11, 2017, 10:53 pm
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Originally Posted by findark
There are 21, 14, and 7-day P fares and a relatively cheap 3-day Z fare. I suspect this will be like EWR where they start out matching B6's amazing price and slowly give up until the only reasonable prices are 21-30 days out.
I haven't seen any of these shorter notice P fares on LAX-EWR. You must be referring to the SFO-BOS route or else I may be missing these shorter notice fares out of LAX. Thanks.
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Old Sep 11, 2017, 11:03 pm
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Originally Posted by ocn2ocn
I haven't seen any of these shorter notice P fares on LAX-EWR. You must be referring to the SFO-BOS route or else I may be missing these shorter notice fares out of LAX. Thanks.
Correct - was talking about SFO-BOS. My apologies if I missed what the topic of conversation was. The EWR-SFO/LAX market started out like that and over the course of a year or two after B6 debuted Mint, they rolled it back to only 30- and 21-day fares being less than $1,000.
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Old Sep 13, 2017, 8:20 am
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Originally Posted by findark
Correct - was talking about SFO-BOS. My apologies if I missed what the topic of conversation was. The EWR-SFO/LAX market started out like that and over the course of a year or two after B6 debuted Mint, they rolled it back to only 30- and 21-day fares being less than $1,000.
ok, thanks. So it sounds like there are many more short notice discounted options on the BOS route. LAX-EWR seems much more difficult, but now I understand. Thanks again.
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 8:29 am
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Originally Posted by findark
Correct - was talking about SFO-BOS. My apologies if I missed what the topic of conversation was. The EWR-SFO/LAX market started out like that and over the course of a year or two after B6 debuted Mint, they rolled it back to only 30- and 21-day fares being less than $1,000.
From my experience, once you pass the 21 day advance purchase limit, the fares jump much higher to at least $1500 or more between LAX and EWR. Does anyone else have any other experience with this? Thanks.
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 10:10 am
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Originally Posted by ocn2ocn
From my experience, once you pass the 21 day advance purchase limit, the fares jump much higher to at least $1500 or more between LAX and EWR. Does anyone else have any other experience with this? Thanks.
Yes, they do. You might be interested in the fare table for LAX/EWR:

Code:
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Cxr     Basis      BC  Cbn    Price   Tp  AP  Min  Max   Days    Rf  
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 UA  VAZ30UPN       Z   J    $549.00  OW  30                 S    N
 
 UA  HAP30UPN       P   J    $644.00  OW  30                      N
 UA  HAP21UPN       P   J    $794.00  OW  21                      N
 UA  YAP21UPN       P   J  $1,074.00  OW  21                      N
 UA  HAP14UPN       P   J  $1,194.00  OW  14                      N
 UA  HAP07UPN       P   J  $1,387.00  OW   7                      N
 UA  HAP00UPN       P   J  $1,587.00  OW                          N
 
 UA  HAZ30UPN       Z   J  $1,557.00  OW  30                      N
 UA  YAZ14UPN       Z   J  $1,724.00  OW  14                      N
 UA  YAZ07UPN       Z   J  $1,954.00  OW   7                      N
 UA  YAZ00UPN       Z   J  $2,374.00  OW                          N
 
 UA  HAD00UPY       D   J  $2,640.00  OW                          Y
 
 UA  JUA            J   J  $3,199.00  OW                          Y
 UA  J              J   J  $9,938.00  OW                          Y
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 11:52 am
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Originally Posted by ocn2ocn
From my experience, once you pass the 21 day advance purchase limit, the fares jump much higher to at least $1500 or more between LAX and EWR. Does anyone else have any other experience with this? Thanks.
It wasn't that long ago (w/in last 5 years) $3400 was the cheapest RT business class fare SFO-JFK.
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 12:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Kacee
It wasn't that long ago (w/in last 5 years) $3400 was the cheapest RT business class fare SFO-JFK.
Indeed. Who knows if they’re making any money, but these sub-$1,500 are fantastic. Not cheap, but totally worth it IMO.
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 1:06 pm
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Indeed. Who knows if they’re making any money, but these sub-$1,500 are fantastic. Not cheap, but totally worth it IMO.
The 30-day P and Saturday Z adv pur fares are just about equivalent to those for Hawaii from West Coast on a 738 in F. I'd say they are a deal. I'd even call 'em "cheap", w/ Club access (for those who otherwise don't get it) and better meals, and lie-flats. UA obviously would rather have business travelers booking within 2 weeks of departure...
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 3:47 pm
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Originally Posted by findark
Yes, they do. You might be interested in the fare table for LAX/EWR:

Code:
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Cxr     Basis      BC  Cbn    Price   Tp  AP  Min  Max   Days    Rf  
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 UA  VAZ30UPN       Z   J    $549.00  OW  30                 S    N
 
 UA  HAP30UPN       P   J    $644.00  OW  30                      N
 UA  HAP21UPN       P   J    $794.00  OW  21                      N
 UA  YAP21UPN       P   J  $1,074.00  OW  21                      N
 UA  HAP14UPN       P   J  $1,194.00  OW  14                      N
 UA  HAP07UPN       P   J  $1,387.00  OW   7                      N
 UA  HAP00UPN       P   J  $1,587.00  OW                          N
 
 UA  HAZ30UPN       Z   J  $1,557.00  OW  30                      N
 UA  YAZ14UPN       Z   J  $1,724.00  OW  14                      N
 UA  YAZ07UPN       Z   J  $1,954.00  OW   7                      N
 UA  YAZ00UPN       Z   J  $2,374.00  OW                          N
 
 UA  HAD00UPY       D   J  $2,640.00  OW                          Y
 
 UA  JUA            J   J  $3,199.00  OW                          Y
 UA  J              J   J  $9,938.00  OW                          Y
This is interesting. Even day of flight, with a single F seat left, I've only ever seen the D $2640 D fare EWR-LAX, never either of the J fares. And EWR-SFO, also day of flight with a single F seat left, I've only ever seen the $3199 J fare. I've never ever seen the $9938 J fare. Maybe if you show up five minutes before the doors close to buy a ticket?
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 4:16 pm
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Originally Posted by physioprof
This is interesting. Even day of flight, with a single F seat left, I've only ever seen the D $2640 D fare EWR-LAX, never either of the J fares. And EWR-SFO, also day of flight with a single F seat left, I've only ever seen the $3199 J fare. I've never ever seen the $9938 J fare. Maybe if you show up five minutes before the doors close to buy a ticket?
The $9,938 fare is only ever used for internal purposes (e.g. possibly used to apportion IDB comp, PQD, etc). The J fare (JUA) is, as you noted, used from time to time but last seat D space is extremely common.
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Old Sep 22, 2017, 6:06 pm
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Originally Posted by findark
Yes, they do. You might be interested in the fare table for LAX/EWR:

Code:
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Cxr     Basis      BC  Cbn    Price   Tp  AP  Min  Max   Days    Rf  
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 UA  VAZ30UPN       Z   J    $549.00  OW  30                 S    N
 
 UA  HAP30UPN       P   J    $644.00  OW  30                      N
 UA  HAP21UPN       P   J    $794.00  OW  21                      N
 UA  YAP21UPN       P   J  $1,074.00  OW  21                      N
 UA  HAP14UPN       P   J  $1,194.00  OW  14                      N
 UA  HAP07UPN       P   J  $1,387.00  OW   7                      N
 UA  HAP00UPN       P   J  $1,587.00  OW                          N
 
 UA  HAZ30UPN       Z   J  $1,557.00  OW  30                      N
 UA  YAZ14UPN       Z   J  $1,724.00  OW  14                      N
 UA  YAZ07UPN       Z   J  $1,954.00  OW   7                      N
 UA  YAZ00UPN       Z   J  $2,374.00  OW                          N
 
 UA  HAD00UPY       D   J  $2,640.00  OW                          Y
 
 UA  JUA            J   J  $3,199.00  OW                          Y
 UA  J              J   J  $9,938.00  OW                          Y
So, you are telling me that every fare except the last two are UP fares from economy?

Originally Posted by physioprof
This is interesting. Even day of flight, with a single F seat left, I've only ever seen the D $2640 D fare EWR-LAX, never either of the J fares. And EWR-SFO, also day of flight with a single F seat left, I've only ever seen the $3199 J fare. I've never ever seen the $9938 J fare. Maybe if you show up five minutes before the doors close to buy a ticket?
If anyone ever paid that near $10,000 OW domestic (!) fare with any sort of regularity, he/she will be a GS in no time flat!!
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