Originally Posted by
jsloan
If UA can price it, they can (and will) sell it. I’ve bought flights on United.com with no UA segments — in fact, in markets UA didn’t serve, they used to be commonly available before UA decided to ditch them.
Although you may sometimes get an error on ticketing, that’s not because United.com cares about the flight numbers; it’s more likely because they were unable to revalidate available inventory.
OK. I'm sure UA did this in the past (I've been successful) but I remember reading several posts on these forums starting probably a few years ago that United did away with this. They will no longer ticket an itinerary that doesn't include UA flights and some agents won't even ticket if UA isn't the "major" carrier. Maybe those are anecdotal stories and users just got bad agents but there were enough reports to believe that UA will not ticket an itinerary without UA flights on it. (Search is failing me at the moment to find these).
-RM