UA: ORD-MKK/LNY/JHM 485 AI through August
May 10, 2011, 6:30 pm
#16
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May 10, 2011, 8:00 pm
#22
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May 11, 2011, 10:46 am
#28
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Yeah, be very careful booking flights at united.com. This week, I discovered that it doesn't necessarily display all UA's nonstop flights if you do an "anytime" query for a certain day. I mean how awful is that? Like you're looking to buy an evening nonstop flight and you do a search for all flights that day and the evening flight doesn't show up. Insanely stupid and incompetent.
May 12, 2011, 9:33 am
#30
Join Date: Oct 2006
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In all honesty, I purchased the fare after it had been pulled from the GDS, and I was noting a single website who was still selling it as the others had updated to the current pricing at that time. Depending on luck, the fare, or phases of the moon, different fares are updated on different sites at different times. I bought my last HNL deal ('09 UA low 200s ai jumbo) in the same way (after the GDS pull), but with a different website that had updated pricing earlier in this case.
Edit to add: If you follow the thread, my post on priceline was after the fare was pulled; the fare itself while alive was available everywhere (plus shown on travelz
), so nothing was masked about the fare itself.
Last edited by crnk; May 12, 2011 at 9:41 am