Originally Posted by
Frugal Doctors
First time booking a United award flight. Is it normal for the list of flights available for a multi-city booking to be different than what shows up if you search for each leg as a one-way? Every flight with economy saver availability I see for the return leg of my trip disappears when I try to add it to my multi-city itinerary.
Sadly, yes it is. The multi-city search tool is greatly limited. If the flights you want are each available in Economy Saver when you do a one-way booking from origin to destination, you should be able to call UA and get them together on a single award. Note that this isn't necessarily true if you're trying to glue flights together to make a connection -- it's only true if each search represents a complete "trip" (i.e., the places where you intend to leave the airport for a reasonable length of time).