Originally Posted by
cfischer
That UA feeder flight thing has been going for a while. Has been the same for certain partner add-ons. Makes sense - no, but there are interesting ways to work with this,
400k all partner is weird - is that a multi-city? LX/TK I-class should not price that high.
Not multi-city, just a straight up NYC-JED one way search.
The super wacky thing is that I get an 88K quote for that 400K option when I'm logged out, or logged in as a family member who is Gold.
Both my 1K account and my family member's 1K account get 400K quotes. The search results for the 1Ks also look a bit different since they include IN (Platinum+ availability) -- the top results for 1K show "67% off Premier" with 245K struck out and 80K replacing that (the United metal over the water in IN options) in one account, in the other 1K account the United metal over the water options are priced at 88K. So there's even variance within 1Ks for the UA metal options.
When I start the search logged out for the 1Ks, but then log in after I select the 88K LX/TK I option, it throws me out to the homepage. So it appears it's only possible to book this at 88K or less if you're lower than 1K/Platinum? Confirmed that it books successfully at the 88K number using a non-1K account.
Wonder what's going on here… A preview of a devaluation? A bug? Aggressive A/B testing?