<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by scutfarcus:
hmm, frightening conversation, I have a ticket (paper, incidentally) on Lufthansa that cost me 70,000 UA miles. The flight is in June. Are ya'll saying that if United goes down, this ticket may be defunct?</font>
Yes, that's what everybody is saying. Purchase Award Guard "assurance" if you want to
attempt to protect your travel plans [although I have some questions about its coverage and have not done so myself; caveat emptor].
Because your travel is relatively soon, however, perhaps UA has a better chance of riding out this crisis in the immediate short term. I would be less concerned about a ticketed award in June than I would, for example, about one set for October.
Additionally, there is the possibility that Lufthansa might honor the ticket as a goodwill gesture even if UA gets liquidated. But they have no obligation to do so.
So keep your fingers crossed, and if you can move up your travel plans to take advantage of your reward, by all means do so!
[This message has been edited by cAAl (edited 03-24-2003).]