I got it to work in Firefox by installing an add-on to throttle download speed. I set it to throttle downloads on united.com and then had time to check the box when loading http://www.united.com/page/genericpage/1,,53171,00.html
Doesn't increasing one-way award prices from 12,500 miles to 15,000 or 16,250 miles sound more palatable to more people than raising the roundtrip award price from 25,000 miles to 30,000 or 32,500 miles even when the devaluation is the same in percentage terms?
This change in the UA program will be good until the next move to increase the price of award tickets in miles.
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One-Way Awards and Miles & Money Awards Available Monday
I see word is out that we will be offering One-Way awards on February 1. I wanted to give you a little more information about this, as well as inform you of the other things we have been up to lately.
During the past six months, we have made it easier for you to use your miles by eliminating last minute award booking fees. We were the first to eliminate this fee and continue to be the only program that has done so. We have given you more choices on how to use your miles by introducing an industry-leading Hotel and Car Awards program.
Now we are giving you more flexibility when using your miles with our new One-Way Awards and Miles & Money Awards, which we expect to complete testing tonight.
With Mileage Plus’ One-Way Awards, you can travel one-way for half the miles of a roundtrip award (starting at 12,500 miles for a domestic Saver award) on United or United Express. Miles & Money Awards enable you to book a roundtrip flight, hotel stay or car rental for fewer miles by making up the difference in cash. More information about these new awards will be available on Monday at www.mileageplus.com.
Our work continues. Initially, One-Way Awards and Miles & Money Awards will only be available online. You will be able to call Reservations to book these awards later this year. The ability to mix and match award levels – Saver or Standard Awards – for a roundtrip award ticket will be available in the summer. I realize that you can mix and match awards now (or shall I say starting on Monday) by creating multiple PNRs. That will change and you will be able to do this on one PNR in the near future. Other new products continue to be developed and will transform Mileage Plus into the most rewarding loyalty program for you.
As you can see, we’ve been hard at work, coming up with more ways for you to use your miles. As always, I look forward to reading your feedback on this thread and stay tuned as there is more to come.
Sincerely,
Robert Sahadevan
Vice President – Mileage Plus
This is great news, thank you United! The stopover would be great. I'm trying to book LAX-MSP-CVG, but no option for this & no phone support until later this year
The ability to mix and match award levels – Saver or Standard Awards – for a roundtrip award ticket will be available in the summer. I realize that you can mix and match awards now (or shall I say starting on Monday) by creating multiple PNRs. That will change and you will be able to do this on one PNR in the near future.
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It all comes down to whether or not a free stopover will still come with a roundtrip award ticket.
Overall, it costs more miles to have that one stopover en route.
If UA does this, it's going to be a detractor, not an enhancement, to MP.
Thus, if it means paying an extra premium for a 1-way award to keep the free stopover on a roundtrip award, then I'm all for that.
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Most of my long haul awards are on UA/LH to Asia or NZ.
I did a Europe stopover back from India and was able to ticket an award that was not available for the return
If I had to do this as 2 one ways to Europe from Asia and from Europe to hete in C I would have spent miles like I was on DL.
I went to SYD on the way back from NZ, because I could.
I think at least keeping the stopover and charging 60% for oneway is fine.
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keeping 1 way at 50% and charging 20% extra for the stopover is fine as well.
Of course, I have no way of making either happen.
But I do have control over which airline I use to burn my cash and miles.
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Doesn't increasing one-way award prices from 12,500 miles to 15,000 or 16,250 miles sound more palatable to more people than raising the roundtrip award price from 25,000 miles to 30,000 or 32,500 miles even when the devaluation is the same in percentage terms?
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This change in the UA program will be good until the next move to increase the price of award tickets in miles.
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It is more palatable if awards are available for at least one way at the true saver rate.
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I see that you are truly against all airline fleecing programs!
You are posting faster than my reading pages to see items of interest.
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It's unfortunate but it seems like Star Alliance partners won't be available as one-way awards (at half-the-roundtrip pricing levels) until later (if that is even being pursued currently by UA).
I see it as fortunate that we can book round trips via UA with miles and a stopover.
Let's just hope a free stopover is allowed per one-way ticket and ... star partners flight are included.
I really hope that UA decides to allow for free en-route stopovers on one-way award tickets, but I'm not counting on it.
It's unfortunate but it seems like Star Alliance partners won't be available as one-way awards (at half-the-roundtrip pricing levels) until later (if that is even being pursued currently by UA).
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I really hope that UA decides to allow for free en-route stopovers on one-way award tickets, but I'm not counting on it.
Since initially the one-way awards will only be available online and you can't book award stopovers online, this would have to be a later update. Furthermore, UA doesn't allow stopovers on awards within a single award region, so many of the allowed award stopovers involve at least some partner travel.
Furthermore, UA doesn't allow stopovers on awards within a single award region, so many of the allowed award stopovers involve at least some partner travel.
If you're redeeming for intl awards, you could stop over at the gateway cities, i.e., IAD, LAX, SFO, ORD.
If you're redeeming for intl awards, you could stop over at the gateway cities, i.e., IAD, LAX, SFO, ORD.
.... Stopovers in North American gateway cities -- like those above -- is exactly what AA allows for free on one-way awards.
Often I'm booking something like ABC-XYZ-LAX o LAX-Europe for 20k miles in coach instead of just booking ABC-XYZ-LAX for 12,500 miles in coach. 7,500 miles for an off-peak time of the year trip between the US and Europe is a pretty good deal with free date changes or even with a change fee if routing gets changed.
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So the question everyone wants to know is... are free stopovers being eliminated (a'la AA)?
I have a feeling this is not going to go the way we are hoping. United PR follows this thread, and is I'm sure well aware of the nuance. I fear that his/her omission of this answer is probably an indication of where they're going.
What I think a fair solution would be would be to continue to allow a stopover on RT awards, but restrict them on one-ways.
