Originally Posted by
UnitedSkies
How were you able to upgrade to F on a Z fare?
Originally Posted by
mauiUAflyer
Indeed... I am curious as well.
Originally Posted by
cmculp
2 cabin first leg?
I did not pay attention about the Z fare designation until you guys pointed out. I was told by corporate travel agent the ticket is fully refundable and did not ask any more question, especially the ticket is well over $10K.
I went back and looked at the entire itinerary and noted the LAX-HKG has C fare code. My return to IAD is from PEK. There is an open jaw in my itinerary. The whole itinerary looks like this:
LGA-IAD A fare (stopover at IAD for a day)
IAD-LAX Z fare
LAX-HKG C fare
open jaw
PEK-IAD C fare (stopover at IAD for a day)
IAD-LGA Y fare (on UX)
This may explain when I asked the TA to book me on the later IAD-LAX flight to minimize my connection time at LAX, but was told the price would increase by $800. Now I realized the increase is due to IAD-LAX has a lower fare code in Z. (I did not make the switch due to cost.... hard to justify to client)
Originally Posted by
1KChinito
Go to united.com, under my itineraries,
if you see your flight as one segment, then you will receive miles for the non-stop flight distance; IAD-HKG. If you see it as two segments, even though it has the same flight number, you will receive miles for IAD-LAX and LAX-HKG.
Upgrade will be determined by the number of segments ticketed.
There is a thread of this topic;
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=22732 UA will not book IAD-HKG as two separate segments with one flight number. You and/or your travel agent can book it as two separate segments with one flight number.
I see two segments in my itinearies for IAD-LAX-HKG. I hope this confirms the miles will be credited separately over 2 segments instead of 1.
Thanks for the link to the other thread, however, I got more confused by reading that thread. It seemed it has not been consistent in practice.