Originally Posted by
stevenshev
Sorry, but definitely not true on UA that you need to book separate PNRs for separate classes. Can easily be done when there's no business availability, subject to fare rules, which are usually quite permissive here, unlike some other airlines (BA comes to mind).
Yes, but it’s very difficult to do it when there
is business availability. If there’s P inventory on IAD-GVA, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you can book TPA-IAD-GVA in P and then delegate TPA-IAD to economy because P is zero. I’ve seen it once or twice, but it’s much more common to have UA simply default to whatever the lowest bucket with inventory on the married segments would be (Z/D/C/J).
Maybe you could force this by calling, but as you mentioned, that’s going to trigger a reprice using current fares and current A/P, which is likely to be pricy.