Originally Posted by gardener
OK, so I have to go to Seoul on business and my company will pay for C class tix. I would like to stopover for a couple of days in HNL on the way back. Will pay the difference in airfare, if any, out of my pocket.
We have to use this lame ITN booking engine that doesn't give you access to the fare rules so I am struggling. If I use a stopover of more than 24 hours it downgrades me to Y on the HNL-LAX-PHL segments. I thought most business class fares allowed free or cheap stopovers. Is it true that you only get F seats on the domestic flights if they are connecting to/from an international segment that day without stopovers? Is there a booking strategy I should use so I get to fly domestic F both ways and get a low cost stopover in HNL?
TIA for any advice.
I would call UA or your travel agent. I have never done US Mainland-HNL-NRT-ICN in C, but I have done a couple of SHA/PVG-NRT-HNL-SFO-MIA/IAD as return legs of transpac trips. In both cases, the additional fares were small for paid C. IIRC, they were less than $150, although they were at least a few years back ( when UA operated PVG/SHA-NRT)
I was never able to use United.COM or the old United Connection software to get the right class of seating when adding the the HNL portion to the trips. I ended up visiting the CTO in Shangahi in one instance, and called my travel agent in DC in another to make them work. I did sit in domestic F on the stopover routings.
Hopefully someone can provide a more recent experience.