BH62

Dummy booking to HI thru United Vacations quotes a reasonable price for air + car with the air booked in S. However, I vaguely recall that there may be some disadvantage w/ so-called bulk-fare bookings. So two questions: (1) For two pax (both 1K), are the S fares upgradeable w/ RPUs, and (2) does this earn full PQMs?

WineCountryUA

published S fares (in fact all published paid fares), on eligible fights can use RPUs. And all published fares earn at least 100% PQMs.
T, L, K & G are all lower paid fares and mainland to Hawaii would be upgradeable & 100% PQM.

There be an issue with some unpublished fares with some group bookings or blind bidding sites -- however I believe (in the past) United Vacation fares did not have those issues. However without see the specific fare rules (or asking appropriate questions), there may be some uncertainty.

username

Any news on this? Should we start a new thread on post-merger challenges? (Seems the threads on this subject are pre-merger.)

Thanks.

toohard

In my experience, the only place the "May I have a can of _____, please" does NOT work is on LH flights, where they have always served my drink from a 1.5- or 2-liter bottle. There I just ask for two glasses of _____, please. This ploy also works.

deirdre

For the latter question, it certainly did when I booked one last Thanksgiving.

YEG USER

I'm sure similar questions have been asked before, but I can't get the FT search function to work, searching for terms like "baggage" and "luggage" don't provide any results.

Anyways, I have a few questions about baggage, but the UA website isn't clear. I am a *G (AC) who will be travelling with my wife and a lap child from Canada to the US. Although I fly UA all the time it has been a few years since I've flown UA with my wife and have never travelled UA with a lap infant.

http://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/trav...edBaggage.aspx

I know that as a *G I can check 3 bags for free. Between the 3 of us we'll have 3 bags to check. The old website used to state that extra baggage allowance was provided to travelling companions of the status member provided they are on the same PNR (we're all on one file). The new website makes no such statement.

1. If we need to check an additional bag, will my wife be able to check a bag for free since she's on my PNR, or will she be charged? (we might want to take an extra bag as my wife plans on doing some shopping while in the US).

2. We'll need to check a car seat for my son, this would be over and above the 3 checked bags. Will we be charged to check the car seat? The website only references checking a carseat as a 1st or 2nd piece.

The car seat shouldn't be too much of an issue; my wife can claim that as her 1st or 2nd piece for free. The main concern is if she will get to check her first bag as my companion.

thecompdude

My wife forgot to combine her United & Continental accounts. Although most of her miles are in the continental account, there are about 4000 miles in the United account which were not moved. Is there any way to combine/transfer the miles?

Thanks.

WineCountryUA

yes, see Merging Accounts

BTW, your old MP account will have a new MP account "nummber" -- you find this by logging on using your old account information.

sbm12

The site is, unfortunately, ambiguous on this. It identifies same-PNR companions of UA elites as getting the baggage allowance but not OAL elites as getting it. My guess is that you will get the allowance since the system seems to take the highest priority in the record. But hard to know for sure until you actually get there and have it happen.

MtRoot

I've seen cases where seatmap goes unavailable for a couple of days after a/c type change, but in this particular case it's been a couple of weeks after switching to a 739 from other 737 variant. Same results from my reservation and new flight search. EF says "There was an error message from the airline when trying to retrieve this seat map: AIRPORT CHECKIN ONLY". The flight is in August. Does anyone have insights on what's going on? Thanks!

ffI

Are there any offers for a 1K or GS challenge? Any links would be appreciated.

sbm12

A 1K challenge should be available; calling the MPSC is probably easiest. For GS I'd suggest calling the UA sales rep working with your company. If you don't have one odds are you don't have a chance anyways.

redynsp

Under the new United I am limited to 1 free piece of luggage as a silver member. Since I also have a MP exploror cc that allows me a free bag will I be able to check 2 bags at no charge?

sbm12

Nope. Either benefit gets you the first bag free but they are not stackable.

oblisk

If I buy an international ticket, on a flight with RN availability. Then Spend the Miles+CoPay to upgrade from Economy to BuisnessFirst will my upgrade be automatically processed or will I have to wait until t-24h as a silver member?