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Old May 25, 2010 | 5:27 pm
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Originally Posted by PAD-1K
May be slightly off-topic, but ...

Why isn’t the .bomb doing what it’s asked to do?

When setting the search-function to “Upgrade with Miles M, H”, why are the results full of W-, V –, etc.-fares?

When I’m flexible, why can’t I search for e.g. S-fares?
I have seen this a lot since they changed the system. Quite often, if you search by schedule for a particular fare class (say M or B), you still get S, W and Q fares (according to greasemonkey). But if you click on continue, you can sometimes (but not all the time ) be confronted with the fare you actually asked for. Hoo-bloody-ray!

At other times, you have to search by fare rather than schedule, with the predictable result that you can find the fare but the system will not show you the flights you want even though you can see that the inventory is available for those flights.

The system is infinitely worse now than it was up to January 12. United, are you listening?
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