Originally Posted by
Burj
Congrats on finding flights and thanks for sharing your experience!
Were you using united.com for your search? How did you go about using united.com? When I've used it there is only a "business/first" option but no way I could see to search JUST for F...
Yes, I used united.com exclusively. use the 30 day calendar so you can click through the weeks a little easier. there is no way to search for just NH F, unfortunately. Literally it is just brute force clicking on each day/box (happy to be corrected if I'm wrong!). There is nothing in the number or font color that will help you identify an F flight without clicking the box. Believe me, I used to think that it's useless to be checking so frequently and that nothing would ever show up but my recent experience has made me a believer. Or maybe I'm catching the flights after they are cancelled by someone else, but before they are going to ANA MC waitlisted people? I can't imagine that NO ONE from ANA MC waitlisted these award flights that I snagged. Who knows, I can only speculate. It is SO random.
Maybe this is super obvious and I don't even need to mention it. (it probably is). There is no F if there are only 3 columns displayed (economy, premium economy, business). If there is a F flight available, there will be 4 columns displayed across (not just 3). so as soon as you see 4 columns get excited, something is hiding somewhere.