Originally Posted by
emcampbe
IME, this is incorrect. It should be charging you the lowest available fare based on your itinerary for the new point of sale, in the local currency. It's possible it could be the same fare, just converted into the local currency. It may very well be a different fare - we see example above of where a P fare is filed in both markets, and available in the US point-of-sale, but not in the UK one. I'm perplexed about why the OP was initially showing $7000+ on the US POS, but then going down to $3000+ with a new search vs. the old search and changing the billing address.
It clearly
isn't showing the lowest available fare, but rather the fare that had already been selected, since that fare was still valid for the new point of sale. In other words, the OP selected the Z fare, so it's showing the Z fare, despite the fact that a P fare is now available.
I just tried it myself and duplicated the OP's experience exactly. (Note that United does provide an option at the top of the page to repeat the search with the new POS. They just don't say "hey, yes, you should really select this."). If I try the inverse -- selecting the fare from the US site and then switching to the UK site, I get an error page when it tries to revalidate the fare.
Originally Posted by
emcampbe
OP has not stated either way where there CC is billed. We don't know if they have access ot a US-based CC or just a UK one. In this case, seems like a US one is the much better one to use.
From the original post: "I sure hope it will accept my UK credit card on the US site when the time comes"