Why are international OWs so expensive, such high fare classes?
Apr 18, 2017, 1:08 pm
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Usually the cheapest approach is to book the RT with a speculative return date and once in japan and once the date firms up, pay the change fee and reschedule the return.
Apr 18, 2017, 2:23 pm
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I'm curious, how are you pricing that? Are you putting in a multi-stop itinerary manually? Or is there some super-secret technique i've managed to miss all these years to find these deals.
Apr 18, 2017, 2:26 pm
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Apr 18, 2017, 3:50 pm
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Just at a glance in SABRE, looks like the only one-way fares United has filed for Tokyo to SF are Y, J, and F fares, anything cheaper requires a roundtrip. While it's certainly debatable whether that's a good idea from a Rev Mgt perspective, it definitely appears that United.com is working as designed.
Apr 18, 2017, 5:32 pm
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FWIW, TP has l
ts of good international fares priced as one-way journeys. Most of these also allow a 72 or so hour stopover at LIS.
ts of good international fares priced as one-way journeys. Most of these also allow a 72 or so hour stopover at LIS.
Apr 18, 2017, 10:03 pm
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For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
Apr 18, 2017, 10:36 pm
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? what do you mean by discount? Until very recently I've typically flown OW US to TYO and back OW at reasonable W fares. It's only recently that they changed their OW fares to full fare Y TYO to US.
For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
Apr 18, 2017, 11:43 pm
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? what do you mean by discount? Until very recently I've typically flown OW US to TYO and back OW at reasonable W fares. It's only recently that they changed their OW fares to full fare Y TYO to US.
For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
I have bought HKG-SFO OW as recent as last month so I suppose this only applies to Japan to US flights?
My challenge is I can't decide on the outbound date until much later, but I know the exact return date (which has R space at this time).
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Apr 19, 2017, 1:32 am
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? what do you mean by discount? Until very recently I've typically flown OW US to TYO and back OW at reasonable W fares. It's only recently that they changed their OW fares to full fare Y TYO to US.
For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
For the future TYO to USA OW I'm looking at other carriers as others have suggested.
Apr 19, 2017, 12:32 pm
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Thanks for reminding me of how I was considering an r/t to Australia departing last December and returning this coming August on another carrier: I had two unrelated trips and I could fill all of the relevant holes with miles...so if I was going to go in the hole for $5000 for a one-way, spending that on an r/t and getting two separate vacations in the deal didn't seem too bad.
Sep 15, 2017, 3:08 am
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Don't Need Return Leg of Ticket. What to Do?
Hi,
I had to fly to Europe. Cheaper to buy a return ticket than one way ticket so did just that. But the return ticket was still $2K.
Now what can I do with the return leg?
Can I cancel the ticket and get a United voucher or something?
Is there a cancellation or change fee when I reuse the voucher?
When I click to cancel the ticket I get:
"This reservation has no refundable value if cancelled. A refund will not be credited.
You may make changes to this reservation according to the fare rules of the cancelled reservation by selecting Change Flights on the View Reservation page."
But I don't really know when I'll need to fly again!
I had to fly to Europe. Cheaper to buy a return ticket than one way ticket so did just that. But the return ticket was still $2K.
Now what can I do with the return leg?
Can I cancel the ticket and get a United voucher or something?
Is there a cancellation or change fee when I reuse the voucher?
When I click to cancel the ticket I get:
"This reservation has no refundable value if cancelled. A refund will not be credited.
You may make changes to this reservation according to the fare rules of the cancelled reservation by selecting Change Flights on the View Reservation page."
But I don't really know when I'll need to fly again!
Last edited by PsuedoEuropeanGuy; Sep 15, 2017 at 3:23 am