No TG First awards for MileagePlus after November?
May 20, 2018, 8:09 pm
#17
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Well, Dec-Feb is high season for travel to Thailand and I would guess that availability has simply been used up. April sees Songkran festival (and Easter), so again availability may just be used up.
May 21, 2018, 2:28 am
#18
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 105
I have been looking at F award SYD-BKK vv and 2 weeks ago, there was nothing in December. Expertflyer showed a lot of empty F cabins. I found a few up to around Nov 28/29 but now they have some until around Dec 6. I guess they slowly release these. Award for Dec was open before for a very short time and a friend got the seat early this year. I think this could be the case for Jan - April as well. Jan was usually difficult to get but Feb, Mar and even Apr were quite easy from my experience past few years. I think they might change the way they release F seat. I normally fly F to BKK 3-4 times a year and started seeing a new pattern since last year. ie Nov 17, Looking for seat for Late April 18 but nothing around that time at all thru May/June. I don't think it's UA members that took all the seat. Then mid January I got a notification from Expertflyer and TG released a ton of F seat for Apr-June. They used to release everything then again at T-5.
Jan 18, 2019, 12:10 am
#19
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 639
Somewhat related, does United (UA) have access to Thai award space at the moment? Have been looking for the past couple of days on different routes and itineraries (J & F) but nothing comes up. I can see availability on Aeroplan and LifeMiles though.
Jan 18, 2019, 2:19 am
#20
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Jan 18, 2019, 2:54 am
#21
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Noticed that last night. Award space still showing on ROP
Jan 18, 2019, 11:22 am
#22
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Maybe too many UA redemptions into F and J has raised concerns? Certainly US based folks have access to a level of credt card signup ‘miles’ bonuses that is simply unimaginable here in NZ.
Jan 18, 2019, 5:30 pm
#23
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On some days I've looked a couple of weeks ago there's periodically F space on some days for Sydney, but nothing at all for either Melbourne or Business in July. Oddly enough there hasn't been any TG award space ex-Auckland available on LifeMiles for months
Jan 18, 2019, 10:42 pm
#24
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Exactly my thoughts - and if that is the case, I must admit that I am very much in favour of such a move!
Jan 18, 2019, 11:39 pm
#25
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Jan 19, 2019, 2:50 am
#26
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Portland OR & Bangkok
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It's not just TG flights are disappearing, NH and others as well.
Jan 19, 2019, 7:56 pm
#27
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The Points Guy has reported that MileagePlus has told him that their links between TG and a couple of other *A programs are broken and they can't say when they'll be restored https://thepointsguy.com/news/united...d-travel-down/
Jan 24, 2019, 12:05 am
#29
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