Originally Posted by
exerda
If I understand correctly, you're asking if UA can force open award inventory on the LH flight? There's not a chance of that.
Long sell is not forcing a reward seat to be opened. Its asking the airline (Lh in this case) to "sell" the seat to UA if its available, but not updated on 3rd party searches like ANA tool or UA's site. In one instance I called at noon and no seat was open. At 3p, I called and booked it. It's that fluid sometimes.
Originally Posted by
andrewket
Perhaps this is a silly question.. but what is the point of a long sell? If it's revenue tickets and not award, why not just book with LH directly?
Andrew
Long sells are for award tickets.
Originally Posted by
Sykes
Generally, though, I imagine that this technique will only work if the underlying award inventory does exist, but United's system is not showing it for some reason (hence the reference to phantom availability). If the inventory doesn't exist, there is nothing that a UA agent can really do for you, long sell or not.
This is EXACTLY IT!!
