Where's United's TWARE Special Fares?
Feb 8, 2011, 11:41 am
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Where's United's TWARE Special Fares?
There hasn't been too many special deals posted on UA's website this year. What has posted seem to be recurring weekly, and new specials seem to be slim. If this is the prelude to the new Continental ownership, perhaps I invested into the wrong airline to be a premiere flyer. UA has always had some great specials in the past, especially internationally. Has anyone else experienced this?
Last edited by FlyinHawaiian; Feb 8, 2011 at 2:20 pm Reason: Retitled thread title for clarity and no SHOUTING please. :-)
Feb 8, 2011, 11:44 am
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Feb 8, 2011, 11:46 am
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Are you talking about the TWARES that had been offered?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ed-thread.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ed-thread.html
Feb 8, 2011, 11:47 am
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They have pretty high capacity numbers (85% or so over all flights last year), so they probably don't see a need to offer or match anybody.
Feb 8, 2011, 11:47 am
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Feb 8, 2011, 11:52 am
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Twares
UA had $200 rt specials last year to/from Hawaii. They lasted about 2 hours. It would be nice if they could figure out a way to offer these first to their premiere frequent flyers via their website.
Feb 8, 2011, 11:53 am
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I think the way they offered them was fair. I took advantage of two TWARES to SYD.. Just need to subscribe to the UA twitter, or the TWARE thread on FT.. Everybody is equal..
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Feb 8, 2011, 11:53 am
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Feb 8, 2011, 12:18 pm
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Signed up for Twitter
I just signed up for Twitter. Thanks for the suggestion. I was always reluctant to sign up for things like this in the past, but it seems like a safe site. I hope more Twares will come up this year. I got notified of the Hawaii fares through a friend.
Feb 8, 2011, 12:20 pm
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When I suggested signing up for Twitter, I meant you could have signed up for it, as that would have let you get alerts when they posted TWARES..
Feb 8, 2011, 1:41 pm
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That is pretty impressive if true. My experiences (mostly international to West Africa) have varied from over capacity to only about 50% full, so I wasn't sure how it looked across the line. Anyone have a link to industry averages on this for 2010?
Feb 8, 2011, 1:50 pm
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Feb 8, 2011, 1:52 pm
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Twares seem to have ended shortly after the merger closed. Its really too bad, they were great fun. I'll probably unsubscribe from United's twitter page if they don't have any new twares in the next month or so.
Feb 8, 2011, 2:17 pm
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Special fares will come back. They've told us in reservations that efares and twares are on hiatus right now because they are working on aligning them with special fares by CO and should be back within a month or so.
Feb 8, 2011, 2:36 pm
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For 2010, both domestic and international (international through September only), my random number generator shows
American - 82%
Delta - 84%
Continental - 84%
US Air - 83%
United - 85%
Jet Blue - 81%
Southwest - 79%
and for all US Carriers - 82%
All numbers rounded to the next integer.
http://www.bts.gov/ , click on Load Factor