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Jul 5, 2018 | 10:02 am

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Originally Posted by tmo454

I need to travel to Cape Town in October from Chicago. Trying to book in J class, if I look on the United site there are a few options but all of them over $11,000 for Business Class. However if I look on Kayak I see an option with Turkish for around $4,000. Knowing that Turkish is a Star Alliance member, why can't I see that option with United? If I book through Turkish can I change it to a 016 ticket number as I believe I get additional PQM's or PQD's right?

It's pretty normal for the deep discount fares to have a requirement to be on the carrier's own ticket stock.

Can you point to where Star Alliance told you otherwise?

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   GENERAL RULE - APPLY UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
   TICKETS MUST BE ISSUED ON THE STOCK OF TK OR HR AND
   MAY NOT BE SOLD IN ERITREA/IRAN/VENEZUELA/SUDAN. AND
   MAY ONLY BE SOLD IN AREA 3/AREA 2/AREA 1.

   TICKETS MUST BE ISSUED ON THE STOCK OF TK OR GP AND
   MAY NOT BE SOLD IN ERITREA/IRAN/VENEZUELA/SUDAN. AND
   MAY ONLY BE SOLD IN AREA 3/AREA 2/AREA 1.

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