March 2011 - ual.com now allowing online booking of LH awards
Mar 10, 2011, 10:21 pm
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March 2011 - ual.com now allowing online booking of LH awards
Just checked.... We can now redeem LH flights online!
The matrix shows how many seats available per class. This is nice! Thanks, United!
The matrix shows how many seats available per class. This is nice! Thanks, United!
Mar 10, 2011, 10:25 pm
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oh WOW. you are correct. Urgh, now I better hurry to find SFO-FRA in LH first for this summer before they all go away. 
Mar 10, 2011, 10:50 pm
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Mar 10, 2011, 11:01 pm
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whoa....nice, and available for 55k RT LH non-stop tixs to munich from SFO during Oktoberfest season.....
i guess i could have gone on NH/AC to check for the same thing, but still..
i guess i could have gone on NH/AC to check for the same thing, but still..
Mar 10, 2011, 11:12 pm
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Just tried to redeem miles on LH. Did not pull up any LH flights, even after I clicked on Star Alliance. Checked a few dates and those were not showing up. Perhaps a glitch?
Mar 10, 2011, 11:17 pm
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Mar 10, 2011, 11:36 pm
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Just did a search for SFO-MUC-SFO and compared to availability on NH. There are awards showing on NH for nonstop in F on certain dates, but those do not show up on UA's award search (and yes, I did check for Star Allliance awards). There were routings on LH via other gateways, and routings through LHR on UA and then LH to MUC, but either *net blocked on the nonstop SFO-MUC or the website still has kinks to work out.
Let me know if anyone spots any F award seats on this route out of curiosity.
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Mar 10, 2011, 11:53 pm
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This is GREAT news! I booked an intra-europe one-way on the phone last year while I was a 1K, but this is nice to have online to check for seats (obviously), but also to book.
It also shows the same results (with my limited experience thus far of course) as ITA on some odd routes (BKK-SGN), so that's good news as well.
I'm looking forward to try this out even more
Maybe they can load OZ and NZ and TG?!?
-jeremy
It also shows the same results (with my limited experience thus far of course) as ITA on some odd routes (BKK-SGN), so that's good news as well.
I'm looking forward to try this out even more
Maybe they can load OZ and NZ and TG?!?
-jeremy
Mar 11, 2011, 7:45 am
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Am I missing somethign?
Mar 11, 2011, 8:15 am
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This is great! Hopefully they will eventually work out the kinks and have this award search tool made as good as CO's.
Mar 11, 2011, 5:45 pm
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ual.com now allowing online booking of LH awards
Doubt I'm the first to discover this (but I searched for other posts), but just noticed that online award searching/booking now includes LH flights. Could the ANA tool turn into the UAL tool when other *A options come aboard?
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Mar 11, 2011, 5:48 pm
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I dont know if this is a positive.... There are thousands of MP members out there that dont even know about Star Alliance... This will only increase demand for transatlantic seats....
Although CO has had LH online for months (with many others), so it may not be so bad.
Although CO has had LH online for months (with many others), so it may not be so bad.
Mar 11, 2011, 5:54 pm
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The sort of people who don't know about *A are probably the same people who would phone to book an award, in which case they'd be offered *A anyway.