Originally Posted by
steve64
Ummm. No.
In my case, I travel on personal travel more than once a year.
And I guess your arbitrary number of 6 is based from UA.com's "+/- 3 days" search feature.
But what if that 6 day time span doesn't return any reasonable flights with R availability? For personal travel it isn't a case of "I fly within x time period at whatever price". If I can't find what I want after searching those 6 days then I have to try again. And again and again.
Yea, customer friendly
For the vast majority of real people, we get vacations from work sufficient for travel to Asia once a year. Those dates have to be approved at work too, usually. If I don't get reward travel on my planned dates, I'm SOL and have to buy tix.
It's possible that UA has designed their systems around this use pattern and not the outlying FT behavior.