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UA Insider
Hi
Everyone, I want to provide you with a further update on our Hong Kong award programming error from this past weekend. Specifically here’s how we are proceeding with these reservations:
- For those customers who had sufficient mileage in their account for the correct award amount, the correct amount of miles were deducted at the time of redemption. Any customers who do not intend to use the published number of miles for their ticket may cancel their reservation without paying a fee and we will refund all miles, taxes and fees.
- For those customers who did not have sufficient mileage in their account for the correct award amount, the correct amount of miles could not be deducted at the time of redemption. These tickets have been canceled for non-payment and all taxes and fees have been refunded.
- For those customers who have already begun travel, or are ticketed to begin travel on or before July 21, we will not cancel these tickets and will allow travel to be completed in full. This is intended as an accommodation to those customers whose travel is already underway or the departure date to begin travel is imminent.
We hope you’ll agree this was a unique circumstance. Unlike other widely reported “mistake fares,” the number of miles required for these awards – the correct purchase price – was clearly disclosed to customers throughout the MileagePlus award redemption process and is also available on our MileagePlus travel award chart.
We are in the process of communicating with affected customers at this time. Once again, we appreciate your understanding.
Shannon Kelly
Director, Customer Insights
United Airlines
I do not agree...United airlines would not allow me the same courtesy if I made a mistake more than 24 hours out.
I encourage everyone to file a DOT complaint....get those complaint stats up.
Remember than in the past, airlines have tried this, cancelled and then been forced to honor the tickets.
I purchased a ticket for 4 miles and i have a receipt. You charged my credit card for the taxes. At the very least, I hope that others try and help by making United at least a little responsible for their bad behavior.
Just canceling tickets after four days with no personal message...unacceptable, a truly bad company