Originally Posted by
jsloan
If there were an inventory blockage issue, then when you tried for two people, it simply wouldn't give you a result.
In this case, UA hasn't published any parameters for how they handle their variable pricing. It may be tied in some manner to the underlying inventory, but there are a lot more pricing levels than fare classes, so whatever their process is, it's more complicated than that.
I suspect what you're seeing is that they're willing to sell one ticket at 155K, but not two, and therefore when you search for two people, you get the higher price. (On a single itinerary, everyone will pay the same price, even if there are a number of lower price tickets available for a smaller group).
If you purchase them separately, you can probably get one at 155K and the other at 240K. I doubt there's a way to get them both at 155K besides waiting and hoping that more inventory opens.
Well got through to a non english as a native language person and she really couldn't explain why, just that's the way it is. Guess I just need to keep an eye on it, checking back to 4/4 and prior it's 155K for two and will hope as the month progress they reduce the miles needed. Else I might just need to pay for a coach ticket to EWR and then use miles for the overnight segment.