SWISS (LX) Award availability now showing.....
Mar 6, 2012 | 10:30 pm
#17
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It appears the LX award availability is no longer showing up on the United website.
Mar 6, 2012 | 11:47 pm
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Mar 7, 2012 | 8:39 pm
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Mar 8, 2012 | 9:40 am
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I'm having issues booking SQ R (Suites) award tickets, all flights are showing as unavailable. Can this be fixed?
This is not a serious question right?
Mar 8, 2012 | 11:52 am
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I am showing:
ZRH-Asia and VV
and YUL-ZRH and VV
(but no US-ZRH)
on United's Award search engine.
ZRH-Asia and VV
and YUL-ZRH and VV
(but no US-ZRH)
on United's Award search engine.
Mar 8, 2012 | 2:45 pm
#23
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R maybe a joke, but SQ in general shouldn't be. SQ made changes to their award policy and are now permitting Business class and First class Saver Awards (using their own KrisFlyer miles) on A380-800 (well, excluding the suites), B777-300 and A340-800 aircraft that had previously been blocked. Effective today, March 8th, they are accepting reservations.
Speculation is that opening up Saver Awards to their own members will also make those awards available to *A partners. Given that these are now the only aircraft types that SQ operate into north america, one surely hopes that UA MileagePlus members can now access them.
Today I did a search on SQ's website and found availability EWR/SIN and JFK/SIN in business class Saver Awards. However searching on UA for the same days did not pull them up.
DAK
Speculation is that opening up Saver Awards to their own members will also make those awards available to *A partners. Given that these are now the only aircraft types that SQ operate into north america, one surely hopes that UA MileagePlus members can now access them.
Today I did a search on SQ's website and found availability EWR/SIN and JFK/SIN in business class Saver Awards. However searching on UA for the same days did not pull them up.
DAK
Mar 10, 2012 | 9:42 am
#24
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Good luck getting to the bottom as to why LX has dissapeared from the website.
Mar 10, 2012 | 10:05 am
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An overall note with the award engine - if there is no availability in any cabin for a flight, it won't show that flight to even let you know that the space is not available!
One thing I do not understand though is that now there appears to be Standard awards (formerly called "EasyPass" with CO) for *A flights (look at Monday's LX flights for example). This I don't understand, it books into the same fare class as the Saver level. The cynic in me thinks that it's UA trying to trick someone into (for some reason) buying at the higher level.
Mar 10, 2012 | 10:11 am
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It's still there, just may not be available in your desired class of service - look at Monday 3/12, there is award space on both LX JFK-ZRH flights.
An overall note with the award engine - if there is no availability in any cabin for a flight, it won't show that flight to even let you know that the space is not available!
One thing I do not understand though is that now there appears to be Standard awards (formerly called "EasyPass" with CO) for *A flights (look at Monday's LX flights for example). This I don't understand, it books into the same fare class as the Saver level. The cynic in me thinks that it's UA trying to trick someone into (for some reason) buying at the higher level.
An overall note with the award engine - if there is no availability in any cabin for a flight, it won't show that flight to even let you know that the space is not available!
One thing I do not understand though is that now there appears to be Standard awards (formerly called "EasyPass" with CO) for *A flights (look at Monday's LX flights for example). This I don't understand, it books into the same fare class as the Saver level. The cynic in me thinks that it's UA trying to trick someone into (for some reason) buying at the higher level.
Mon., Mar. 12, 2012 | New York, NY (JFK) to Zurich, Switzerland (ZRH)
Depart:
22:00
Mon., Mar. 12, 2012
New York, NY (JFK)
Arrive:
10:45 +1 Day
Tue., Mar. 13, 2012
Zurich, Switzerland (ZRH)
Travel Time:
7 hr 45 mn
Flight: LX15
Operated by SWISS Airlines.
Aircraft: Airbus A330-300
Fare Class: Business (I)
Meal: Meal
No Special Meal Offered.
Mar 10, 2012 | 11:30 am
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R maybe a joke, but SQ in general shouldn't be. SQ made changes to their award policy and are now permitting Business class and First class Saver Awards (using their own KrisFlyer miles) on A380-800 (well, excluding the suites), B777-300 and A340-800 aircraft that had previously been blocked. Effective today, March 8th, they are accepting reservations.
Speculation is that opening up Saver Awards to their own members will also make those awards available to *A partners. Given that these are now the only aircraft types that SQ operate into north america, one surely hopes that UA MileagePlus members can now access them.
Speculation is that opening up Saver Awards to their own members will also make those awards available to *A partners. Given that these are now the only aircraft types that SQ operate into north america, one surely hopes that UA MileagePlus members can now access them.
Mar 10, 2012 | 11:38 am
#28
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The SQ routes from MEL and SYD to SIN have been open to C awards for *A partner programs for quite a while. It's the long-haul from SFO, LAX and EWR to HKG and SIN that haven't been available for C awards for *A members outside of KF.
Last edited by SFOTurtle; Mar 10, 2012 at 11:54 am
Mar 10, 2012 | 11:56 am
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If someone can find availability on Aeroplan but not UA.com, then we know there's an issue, although scope and severity of the issue would require a lot more than just one or two differences.
Mar 10, 2012 | 7:38 pm
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Pretty sure I saw J availability on the SQ 380 from LAX-NRT earlier today. Not sure if that has also been a "problem" route.