Originally Posted by
channa
Holy moly -- you're booking this on EasyPass?
Remember there's only EasyPass on CO and UA metal, which means that all but RDU-EWR must be available as Saver.
In other words, you're paying > 2x miles for the whole itin because of the one RDU-EWR segment not being available.
If I were you, I would rethink or restrategize this.
Well, no, that's why it's separate tickets.
EWR-LHR-BKK-TPE is on SaverPass (32.5k)
I'm booking RDU-EWR separately, but a cash ticket price is about $270, which is why I'm doing it as an EasyPass (25k).
Altogether, it's 57.5k, which is almost as bad as EasyPass the whole way (65k), but it's a little less.
On the other hand, it could be 32.5k + $270 cash. But I don't know if that's better or worse than paying 57.5k. What do you think?
[Note also that this is a one-way award, so I'm not stuck in EasyPass on the return because of this. On the return, which is a separate one-way award, I found my brother a SaverPass F flight on UA for a price of 70k online. And for some reason, when I called UA to book it, they only charged me 60k miles.]
On the following day, 12/19, the entire routing is available on SaverPass if I search separate segments, but I can't see it as an option online, and the phone agent could not see any award availability on the VS EWR-LHR flight even though I saw it online. I only see it online when searching EWR-TPE, not when searching RDU-TPE (even though there is saver RDU-EWR available). The phone agent said that it didn't show online because it's too far (does he mean that it exceeds MPM for RDU-TPE to route that way, but that it's OK for EWR-TPE?).
Is there any other reason why the VS segment might show SaverPass available on CO.com (when separately searching RDU-EWR and EWR-TPE) but not to the agent?