Originally Posted by
threeten
Wonder if anyone understands UA's inventory management system or has direct experience with Farelocks to know this. I ended up fare locking two separate one way tickets because I wasn't sure about my plans yet and there was a good chance I would not be able to do an RT flight. Turns out one of the one-ways is holding on to a discounted K space ticket. I ended up booking one of the first one ways, since it leaves NA and has no change fees. I can change the ticket to add the return flight, but there's only more expensive S space left. ...
To add a return means booking a new ticket and repricing the entire trip. There is little advantage to book roundtrips vs one-ways for domestic / NA tickets. TATL/TPAC are different.
Originally Posted by
threeten
Anyway, if I cancel that farelock, any clues about whether or not that space will reappear or if it'll just disappear into the ether?
No certainty either way, will depend on other ticket sells in the meantime.