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Oct 28, 2013, 11:57 pm

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Originally Posted by zink88

I have the following itinerary on hold for 2 award tickets...

5/18 RDU-CLT US2069
5/18 CLT-MUC LH429 arrive 5/19
5/19 MUC-IST TK1630 (dest)

5/26 IST-NAP TK1879 (stopover)

6/1 NAP-IST TK1880
6/1 IST-JFK TK11 arrive 21:55
6/2 JFK-CLT US1983
6/2 CLT-RDU US2056

All legs are showing Business/First availability on United. The agent told me this is pricing out at 125K each because I believe she indicated the RDU-CLT, JFK-CLT, and CLT-RDU legs are in First Class causing the whole award to price as First Class. These are cabins with only 2 classes of service.

Is this correct? I believe if this was a United award it would price out at the Business level of 100K.

Or is the problem that I am returning through IST from NAP on the way back?

domestic first class on a two class aircraft, in the USA, does not increase the price of the award when in conjunction with international business class. it should price at biz class levels.