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Old Mar 14, 2013, 11:51 am
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Already booked Saver Coach SFO-BCN - what the chances of Saver Biz/First awards?
Me and a friend are going to Barcelona in mid-Oct from San Fran and both of us have lots of MP miles to redeem Saver Business/First roundtrip. After monitoring united award availability for months, Saver First was available but always for 1 person only. We gave up and booked Saver Econ last night...but there are plenty of seats left in First/Business. Would UA make these open seats available for Saver Rewards as the date gets closer? Trying to decide whether I should pay $4.99/month to sign up Expert Flyer to monitor availablity till our trip in Oct or there is no chance more Saver awards will be available....
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Old Mar 14, 2013, 1:19 pm
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Originally Posted by jtse818
Me and a friend are going to Barcelona in mid-Oct from San Fran and both of us have lots of MP miles to redeem Saver Business/First roundtrip. After monitoring united award availability for months, Saver First was available but always for 1 person only. We gave up and booked Saver Econ last night...but there are plenty of seats left in First/Business. Would UA make these open seats available for Saver Rewards as the date gets closer? Trying to decide whether I should pay $4.99/month to sign up Expert Flyer to monitor availablity till our trip in Oct or there is no chance more Saver awards will be available....
Most of the time, saver F may pop up at the last minute for the long haul flight and again most likely will be one seat at a time. So the best strategy is probably book one in coach and one in F; do a last minute switch to F when another F becomes available later.
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Old Mar 14, 2013, 1:34 pm
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How about redeeming for one saver award and buy one revenue ticket?
Or redeem for one saver award and check back 24 hours later to see if another opened up.
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Old Mar 15, 2013, 12:20 am
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Originally Posted by lax2010
Most of the time, saver F may pop up at the last minute for the long haul flight and again most likely will be one seat at a time. So the best strategy is probably book one in coach and one in F; do a last minute switch to F when another F becomes available later.
I agree with the one in coach and one in F, but I would probably waitlist for both C and F from the coach ticket. That way you should get anything that comes up so long as you are high enough on the waitlist. If C cleared I would keep the waitlist for F.
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