Originally Posted by
sbm12
It should be truly instant. You can always call CO and they will hold the reservation for a couple days while waiting for the miles to show up of you are really worried about the inventory disappearing.
Well the miles showed up this morning, I guess the computers don't work so well overnight.
I booked the trip (UA flights), but it won't let me select seats - is this the case with rewards, because it's a partner flight, or just something weird going on with this particular flight? When I booked another ticket through UA on the same flights I was able to select seats.
This is what I get:
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! We could not process your request. Please see the message below and make revisions.
! We are unable to retrieve the seat map on this partner airline.