Originally Posted by
mfirst
With all of the changes in options for changing flights - wondering if people had advice on this.....
most of my traveling these days involves work - and typically finishing on a friday afternoon - but unable to catch the last flight out to head home which means taking the first flight out on Saturday. My tickets are booked weeks in advance by the corporate agency - and they are very helpful, but per UA - they "own" the tickets with regards to change.
Sometimes, I am done with work early that opens up the option of taking a friday evening flight home....
I know these are technically not "same day changes" - but short of working with the travel agent to cancel the saturday flight and purchasing, at the last minute, the Friday flight (probably at significant expense)....any advice from veteran road warriors?
United's same-day change policy is actually +/- 24 hours from the scheduled departure. It absolutely will allow you to change a Saturday morning ticket to Friday night.
Originally Posted by
mfirst
buy a friday ticket and a saturday and plan on using one and canceling the other?
Definitely don't do that. (And corporate travel probably won't allow it anyway). If UA notices, they'll (a) cancel one or both, (b) bill your travel agent, and/or (c) close your MileagePlus account, depending upon how much of a pattern it becomes.