Originally Posted by
todorovic
Although I never book these kinds of fares (hate long layovers, even when spent in a hotel room), let me offer my opinion on what the next available flight means. This question was specifically asked by the OP in the above referenced thread. IMO the first flight with any seat open will count as the first available flight - doesn't have to be in your desired cabin. You may be finding all G fares up to your layover (forced kind-of-a-stopover) point but then the first available flight may only have F available. If there are no other flights with coach availability within 4 hours on a domestic itinerary you will have to book the F fare (at most likely very high price) or not be able to fly on your desired flights with G fares.
Are you inferring that if a person flys NYC-LAX on a Sun and all of Mon and Tues flights are soldout and the 1st available flightis on Weds in Y a G fare.That UA will allow a 3 day layover w/o braking teh fare.Maybe if the fare rules of that tkt allows it but I highly doubt that that will be the case
Yrs ago with AA going NYC-KOA we overnighted @ LAX.We then decided to change our return and stay the weekend in LA, AA shut us down as we already had our 1 Stopover, the rep did say had we taken a flight out from NY that landed after the last KOA flight left LAX then our night @ LAX would not have counted as our Stopover, but did insist we would have to be on the 1st KOA flight the next day which we didnt want too early