I get the same lower pricing as you did using my Android.
Try to price other city pairs . If you consistently get a price difference, then I suggest you don't use your iPhone to book future flights. I cannot explain the difference, other than to say maybe Jeff Smisek had an under the table deal with iPhone.
Suggest pricing economy on those same 2 flights (T) to LAS and (K) to IAH. Towards end of booking, you will be offered a buy-up to First. See if that price is less than what you would pay for the P fare now. You have 24 hrs to cancel & get refund.
Thanks - yeah, I will fool around with it more when I get home tonight and see how other cities I fly to shake out.
I just checked again on my laptop and it was consistent with the iPad pricing. I also looked at the iPhone app pricing and it is consistent with what it showed last night.
It appears the OP is trying to save on costs. Where is it reported about buying up not re-faring? I am not saying you are incorrect, but would like to read elsewhere. Does this information appear on the UA website?
Not so much saving on costs but it threw up a red flag when I priced it out and it was showing upwards of $900. I am used to that $600-700 range.
I booked my flight to PHL last month on the iPhone app and now I am wondering if I paid too much then. I believe it was $800 on an A-fare?
Originally Posted by
RandomBaritone
This is vanishingly unlikely. I've worked on plenty of digital pricing models, and never once was there the slightest whiff of a suggestion -- even from management consultants who might be expect to espouse such views -- that the same item should cost more based on which device is used to purchase it. Ironically, it's more likely to be random (Amazon has tried this, to gather hard data on what customers are actually willing to pay, though no airline has to my knowledge) fluctuation than it is to be device-based.
Far more likely to be a bug, or perhaps some old inventory data loaded into the app.
I've always heard that since sites tracked cookies and if you continuously searched fares it would keep them at the same level or even increase them a tad bit to push you into purchasing for fear that it would go higher.
It is funny that even today the iPhone app is showing the same as last night but yet the .com and iPad are still showing the "right" fare.