Originally Posted by
theise
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Also, it's not clear our son and his wife will be settled in well enough for a visit before 09Nov2025. Is there some way to extend the credit so we could visit early 2026? The posts I've seen suggest that booking and canceling again may not do it (i.e., the FFC from a second cancellation would carry or revert to the same "fly by" date as the original FFC).
The most recent approach, some have been successful with, is booking the Nov 2025 trip and then
changing the trip to a date beyond the original expiration. Do not cancel, but change the dates. You will find numerous references to this approach in the recent months of this thread. No guarantees this will work as this is a changing landscape -- as UA tries to hold customers to their CoC policy on rebooking.
On a totally untraveled cancellation the FFC can be used for any destination bookable by UA.