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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 10:15 am
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
You can, you just need to call web support to do it.
Tried that, did not work for me,at least as of a year ago. Went through the entire reservation process (glacial compared with online booking) and at the end the CSR said "no can do" so we split the reservation. Thankfully the pre-assigned E+ seats did not get messed up and there were no irregular ops.

Originally Posted by emcampbe
IME, depends on the type and the conditions. IME, pre-merger UA certificates (same as today's 1016 type) were sometimes limited to an itin. with 1 person and sometimes not. That definitely was the case with % off, which makes some sense. With $ off, it doesn't seem to make too much sense as it would be a straight amount off anyway, whether for 1 or 5 people. Not that difficult, IMO to basically split the discount among several people.
This was a post-merger $300 cert that would have discounted 1 ticket (for 1 traveler) on UA metal but was told nobody else could be in the record.

Originally Posted by pong1092
Last week I was able to book a reservation using e-certs and two people. We each had an e-cert applied to the reservation. So I believe this issue is fixed, at least for me it was.
Best news of the day! Good to hear UA's IT department has done something useful recently.
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