Originally Posted by
lotemblizej
Excellent advice. Only problem is that I get fewer competent UA agents these days. They want to help, but clearly do not have the training or experience to deal with these situations. The idea about using multi-city search is a good one that I will keep in mind for the future.
Yes, I can't promise you'd have much luck finding a good agent.
To be clear about multi-city search, what I'm suggesting is to select the W fare for the UA-operated segment, and then just pick the lowest available fare for the other segment, and
hope that UA has managed to find a combination that LH actually likes. There's no guarantee this works, but it's worth trying.
Your other option, should this situation arise again, would be to find a travel agent. I know there are a couple reading this forum and I suspect they would be able to manage this. The trick is to read and understand the fare rules, including the inventory delegation rules. I wouldn't expect most UA reservations agents to be able to do this, but an experienced TA is another matter.
