US-Asia route via EU?
Oct 28, 2013, 12:22 pm
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Oct 28, 2013, 2:52 pm
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Oct 28, 2013, 6:49 pm
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I have a four segment UA award ticket LAX-SYD via Asia and a six segment on the return via Asia. UA allowed me to get this routing on a manually-calculated basis. Now they will not allow further changes because my routing is "invalid" but confirmed. The agent said four segments are the maximum permitted in each direction (on a roundtrip booking). When I questioned why they permitted the six segment routing in the first place, the agent was speechless and then got defensive...the Friendly Skies.
Oct 29, 2013, 10:18 am
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I have been able to book 5-6 segments on united.com to destinations that are hard to reach like SEZ and MRU, which if coming from a spoke city in the US can be tough to reach in 3 connections when booking an award. Im sure that may vary for others, but was shocked that united.com ticketed it. All legal otherwise no stopovers greater than 24 hours, but the segments surprised me.
Oct 29, 2013, 11:58 am
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I have been able to book 5-6 segments on united.com to destinations that are hard to reach like SEZ and MRU, which if coming from a spoke city in the US can be tough to reach in 3 connections when booking an award. Im sure that may vary for others, but was shocked that united.com ticketed it. All legal otherwise no stopovers greater than 24 hours, but the segments surprised me.
Oct 30, 2013, 5:27 am
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I have been able to book 5-6 segments on united.com to destinations that are hard to reach like SEZ and MRU, which if coming from a spoke city in the US can be tough to reach in 3 connections when booking an award. Im sure that may vary for others, but was shocked that united.com ticketed it. All legal otherwise no stopovers greater than 24 hours, but the segments surprised me.
Oct 30, 2013, 8:05 am
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I was able to book a 9 Segment SE Asia trip last week in First for 140K miles each routing via Atlantic on Outbound and Pacific on Return. I booked what i could online then called in and just had them modify existing itinary. Guy had no issues with it.
Outbound: XXX-ORD-FRA-BKK-DPS
open Jaw
Return: SIN-BKK-23hr layover-PEK-3 day Stopover PEK-IAH-ORD-XXX
-Justin
Outbound: XXX-ORD-FRA-BKK-DPS
open Jaw
Return: SIN-BKK-23hr layover-PEK-3 day Stopover PEK-IAH-ORD-XXX
-Justin
Oct 30, 2013, 9:29 am
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Oct 30, 2013, 10:46 am
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