Originally Posted by
saranankara
This is great to know. Can I just check on the SQ site? If not, I'll check on the NH site. Is SQ the only major UA partner airline that doesn't display on United.com?
No, SQ makes seats available to its own program members that are not available to *A partners. You have to search on NH or AC. It can sometimes be a chore to book, because the UA phone agents often have difficulty seeing the availability themselves.
I think SN is the only other partner that's currently not showing on .com. There have been others at various times.
Did you find all these as codeshares when searching the UA site and book them on the UA site as well?
They were all found on united.com. Some were booked over the phone. The complicated stuff generally can't be done on the web. It took multiple calls to get LH F booked.
Note that these are not codeshares. Award tickets book under the native (i.e., operating carrier) flight number.
Re: the itinerary: SFO-BKK(stop)-CMB
DAR-SFO
The reason the United rep said this was illegal was that the first open jaw (CMB) is area 2 and the second (DAR) is area 3, and they said it's illegal to have open jaws in two different regions. Do you know, generally speaking, if this is true?
Who knows. UA doesn't publish all of its routing rules. When a phone agent can't get an itinerary to auto-price, they will often just make up a reason. If you can get it to book on line, it doesn't matter what the phone agent thinks.
I've booked an OJ across regions, but it's not something you can count on getting.
What's your routing back from DAR to SFO? You probably cannot book that through Europe, as crossing two oceans on a single RT is now supposed to be illegal.