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Old Jan 6, 2018 | 12:22 pm
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Originally Posted by Viggyfresh
  1. An avenue which would probably put me in UA Premier Gold range would be to make the annual India trip on a 016 ticket, but that’s not something I’ve seen advertised on United.com (in fact, I don’t think I’ve seen a single SQ flight I care about available for booking outside of award travel). Does anyone have experience trying to plate SQ flights on UA stock? The specific flights my family tends to hit are SQ 31/32 (or 1/2) and 528/529.
You're extremely unlikely to be able to plate SQ31/32 or SQ1/2 on a UA ticket. SQ and UA don't get along well at all, and SQ has tightened up plating restrictions on most of its fares anyway. And you're unlikely to be able to use UA1/2 via SIN either, because UA will only route SFO-MAA TATL on inexpensive fares (I believe that's common across all of their US-India fares). UA would like you to consider something like SFO-FRA-MAA, or SFO-SEA-FRA-MAA. (It's actually not that much longer time-wise than SFO-SIN-MAA).
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