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Old Aug 27, 2023 | 8:57 am
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Originally Posted by Sykes
As others have said, the Google Flights -> United.com connection is a bit wonky so a lot of time these errors just happen randomly, but one common tip I have is that once you get to the payment screen don't change the country for your billing address. When using the connection, United.com will assume a point of sale of the origin of the flight (TLV in your case), and in some cases you may get favorable fares and/or inventory with that point of sale that would be lost if you change the country of your billing address. I personally haven't had any trouble with payment processing with the wrong billing address country. (This may not be applicable to OP, but it's a common issue I've run into.)
don’t you need a card with an Israel-based billing address to do this [for OPs itinerary]? If you don’t have one, how would you ever get the payment to go through?
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