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Old Apr 25, 2018, 3:19 pm
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United (Air Canada): YVR-TPE Business/Polaris $2,000
The Taipei deal is back - fly YVR-SFO on United or Air Canada domestic F, then SFO TPE on United Polaris, back the same way. Plenty of dates in July/August and possibly beyond.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 3:36 pm
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Great find!

Also available from YYZ for $167 more. The reward would be lie flat all the way.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 3:42 pm
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Nice. It looks like JL also has 1916 out of YVR.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 3:47 pm
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Originally Posted by ycc777
Nice. It looks like JL also has 1916 out of YVR.
Yes but JL flies 788 with its angled lie-flat. UA has 77W on SFO-TPE until end of Oct.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 4:34 pm
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Thanks @bocastephen!

Locked one of these fares in while I figure out some other plans.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 4:49 pm
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On UA SFO-TPE-SFO, the 777-200 (old planes) will be used starting mid-Oct. So, no new Polaris seats starting in mid-Oct.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 5:28 pm
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Originally Posted by kevino
On UA SFO-TPE-SFO, the 777-200 (old planes) will be used starting mid-Oct. So, no new Polaris seats starting in mid-Oct.
Good to know.

Glad I booked in mid-July, I think.
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 5:43 pm
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that's good to know. I was gonna book in Dec.

I'm planning a trip to HKG from SFO this Dec, not sure if it's worth it booking YVR - TPE and need to get two separate tix from SFO - YVR and TPE - HKG.
non-stop flight from SFO - HKG in PEY on SQ will be at $2000. I'm debating..
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 8:49 pm
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Great fare! I am seeing $1935 all in for Mon-Thu departure.
Code:
​​​​​​​     AL FLGT  BK   DATE  TIME  FARE BASIS      NVB  NVA   BG
 YVR
XSFO UA   618 P    02JUL 0600  PKX4WDM1        02JUL02JUL 2P
 TPE UA   871 P    02JUL 1405  PKX4WDM1        02JUL02JUL 2P
XSFO UA   872 P    09JUL 0950  PKX4WDM1        09JUL09JUL 2P
 YVR UA   784 P    09JUL 0844  PKX4WDM1        09JUL09JUL 2P

CAD  2280.00      02JUL18YVR UA X/SFO UA TPE Q YVRTPE15.00
USD  1781.00      1125.00UA X/SFO UA YVR Q TPEYVR15.00
USD    20.24CA    1125.00CAD2280.00END
USD     0.78XG    XT USD 11.30YC USD 7.92XA USD 14.00XY USD
USD   133.02XT    51.56YQ USD 15.62SQ USD 11.20AY USD 16.92
USD  1935.04      TW USD 4.50XF SFO4.50
RATE USED 1CAD=0.781132USD
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Old Apr 25, 2018, 9:24 pm
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Originally Posted by kevino
On UA SFO-TPE-SFO, the 777-200 (old planes) will be used starting mid-Oct. So, no new Polaris seats starting in mid-Oct.
I'd classify this more as "up in the air." UA only has something like 3 routes listed for the 77W post-Oct., despite having 17 or 18 of them at the time. And they've got the first 772 retrofit in service and are planning to have them updated at a rate of about 3 per month by the summer.

In other words, no promises, but there's at least a decent chance you'd get the new seat on SFO-TPE even beyond mid-October. However, SFO-HKG is one of the routes that's still listed for the 77W, and you can route this fare via HKG (then HX to TPE), so that's an option too.

Also, @markmho: This fare allows one stopover in each direction in Area 3 for C$100 and has a 12-hour minimum turnaround time at the destination. So, if you're willing to spend the night in TPE, you shouldn't need to purchase a TPE-HKG ticket separately. Now, having said that, I've had a difficult time getting this to price properly -- it kept adding a stop in NRT in order to get the lower fare -- but it finally worked when I forced the fare. You might be able to get UA to price it if you call them and feed them the fare information, or perhaps you can get it to come up on an OTA.



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Old Apr 25, 2018, 9:40 pm
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Originally Posted by jsloan
I'd classify this more as "up in the air." UA only has something like 3 routes listed for the 77W post-Oct., despite having 17 or 18 of them at the time. And they've got the first 772 retrofit in service and are planning to have them updated at a rate of about 3 per month by the summer.

In other words, no promises, but there's at least a decent chance you'd get the new seat on SFO-TPE even beyond mid-October. However, SFO-HKG is one of the routes that's still listed for the 77W, and you can route this fare via HKG (then HX to TPE), so that's an option too.

Also, @markmho: This fare allows one stopover in each direction in Area 3 for C$100 and has a 12-hour minimum turnaround time at the destination. So, if you're willing to spend the night in TPE, you shouldn't need to purchase a TPE-HKG ticket separately. Now, having said that, I've had a difficult time getting this to price properly -- it kept adding a stop in NRT in order to get the lower fare -- but it finally worked when I forced the fare. You might be able to get UA to price it if you call them and feed them the fare information, or perhaps you can get it to come up on an OTA.
Verified in GDS, some OTA should able to pull the result.
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Old Apr 26, 2018, 4:59 am
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Thanks for sharing!

As a side note: this is very strange that UA is attacking AC's hub one year after AC launched it's own direct YVRTPE service.
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Old Apr 26, 2018, 6:26 am
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Originally Posted by jsloan
I'd classify this more as "up in the air." UA only has something like 3 routes listed for the 77W post-Oct., despite having 17 or 18 of them at the time. And they've got the first 772 retrofit in service and are planning to have them updated at a rate of about 3 per month by the summer.

In other words, no promises, but there's at least a decent chance you'd get the new seat on SFO-TPE even beyond mid-October.
Thanks! In that case, I suppose booking flights furthest into the future would increase the chances of getting a plane updated with new Polaris seats?

In the event we are stuck with the old 772 seats, how do you think UA will decide who from business class gets comp. upgraded to the first class cabin (since first class seats are not being sold for these flights)?
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Old Apr 26, 2018, 7:19 am
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Originally Posted by kevino
In the event we are stuck with the old 772 seats, how do you think UA will decide who from business class gets comp. upgraded to the first class cabin (since first class seats are not being sold for these flights)?
I've seen them go to airline employees eligible for positive-space bookings and elites, which I presume is prioritized by status and fare class.
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Old Apr 26, 2018, 7:21 am
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Originally Posted by Bonaventure

As a side note: this is very strange that UA is attacking AC's hub one year after AC launched it's own direct YVRTPE service.
AC has all kinds of low coach fares to Asia, Europe and Canada from UA's hubs.
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