Originally Posted by
saaveraward
OP here. And going back to my original question, When I select "nonstop flights only" on .com and look at the monthly calendar it shows green/blue dates as you indicated.
When I click on any green/blue date it says at the top, "! There are no nonstop flights available for this destination. The flight search results for this destination with stops are shown below."
It then displays AKL-SYD-LAX, etc.
So every blue/green date I click in to is a false positive making it rather impossible to search.
Thanks
Yeah, this is an annoying aspect of UA's search engine. The trick to fixing it is to find
one day on which there is actually nonstop availability
in any cabin. Usually, this requires more or less exhaustive searching. In this case, there is good economy availability in the 2nd half of January for AKL-LAX (try Jan. 19 or Feb. 3). Search on that day, and select "nonstop only". Now the calendar will reflect the availability that you want (and you can confirm that there's no J availability on that route in January or February).
As soon as you search a route that
doesn't have nonstops available, UA's engine will default to showing connections. Which is annoying, to say the least. In this case, NZ doesn't have
any award seats open from Feb. 3 through end of March... which means you can't select a day in March with nonstop Y availability in order to see the calendar for April. So you're left checking days one at a time (including connections)... until you happen to find nonstop available in some class on a day, at which point you can check the whole 2-month calendar around it.