UA screwed up. Did not merge the flights and xld one they shouldnt have

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Jan 16, 2013, 11:05 am

#16

Sykes

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Originally Posted by atcguy

Is there any more info on combining awards? I have 3 one ways due to limited award availability (I booked as seats came available). I'd like to combine these 3 into a round trip with a stopover, saving me a significant amount of miles, is it possible?

I've had success doing this when on an all-UA itinerary, or when there is plentiful award inventory available on a partner. Basically, two of the itineraries are canceled, and the flights added to the first one. This can be problematic because the inventory can go away for partner flights, but UA can open the inventory back up on UA metal when you go through the entire process with an agent via phone.

Jan 16, 2013, 11:06 am

#17

Quimbydog

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Originally Posted by Critic

You're traveling with a designated hitter to visit a handheld Nintendo console?

DH = Dear Husband
DS=Dear Son

With all the crazy lingo on this board, I had to chuckle that some of you didn't get this common message board lingo used elsewhere.

Jan 16, 2013, 11:16 am

#18

mherdeg

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Originally Posted by Quimbydog

DH = Dear Husband
DS=Dear Son

With all the crazy lingo on this board, I had to chuckle that some of you didn't get this common message board lingo used elsewhere.

Yeah, it's just a whole different community. You'll also find that people on FlyerTalk are usually very precise in how they refer to airport codes (they will always say "AUH" and never "ABU"), in how they discuss their loyalty programs (they will practically never say "points" when they mean "miles" and they will pretty much never refer to a frequent-flyer program's benefits as "bennies"), and prepaid credit cards (they will pretty much always refer to "Vanilla reload cards" as "ice cream" unless they're travel bloggers, in which case they'll use both phrases together to help search engine optimization).

Jan 16, 2013, 11:16 am

#19

WineCountryUA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Quimbydog

DH = Dear Husband
DS=Dear Son

With all the crazy lingo on this board, I had to chuckle that some of you didn't get this common message board lingo used elsewhere.

perhaps there is more diversity i forums / communications than you realize, but would agree on this forum, your intent is the more common usage

DH acronyms (such as, to a kid in school, text messaging -- doing homework)

DS acronyms

Jan 16, 2013, 12:21 pm

#20

greg99

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I have learned from my wife that there are as many exotic abbreviations on "mom's" boards, cruise boards, Disney boards, etc. as there are on FT - DH/DS being two of the big ones.

Greg

Jan 16, 2013, 12:42 pm

#21

aacharya

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Originally Posted by greg99

I have learned from my wife that there are as many exotic abbreviations on "mom's" boards, cruise boards, Disney boards, etc. as there are on FT - DH/DS being two of the big ones.

Greg

There are no other forums. FT is all. :-) We have a cruise board, a Disney board, etc. Though I must admit - not sure there is a "mom" board.