Originally Posted by
sannmann
This seems to be the only way currently to book an OAL *A itinerary through United.com: start as an award itinerary and select the pay cash instead feature at the end.
Yes you can do it this way, but when I checked on a LH itinerary, it put me into S instead of the cheaper G seat. (I found this on a quick search on Expedia). It seems that you would have to do some legwork followed by a phone call to get better prices, but I'm sure many of us do this already...