sjl

Thanks Mike. I didn't realize that. Maybe I'll just stick with my original flights then and get in at 12:05 am rather than 6:30 am...

Nope. Booked it at the beginning of October. I thought it was weird but based on what Mike said, I'll probably just leave as it is.

duke2013

Is it possible to change the flight to past 1 year of the original booking at pre-deval rates?

weirdlyndon

You can certainly try, however if you're unsuccessful, then it's as you should have expected.

xmlsoa

Any people / posts on here with those experiences / tips/ how to/ luck factor?

kluau88

So I am sure others have done the same, but I was just pricing some awards and this award chart makes me shake my head.

SINNRT partner in J is 40K
SINBKK J + BKKNRT Y is 35K

The extra 5K is worth quite a bit given the length of BKKNRT. Then again at these rates might as well do SINBKKHKGTPENRT if you have the time.

HKGTPE partner in J is 40K is looking rather pricey when you consider SINNRT is the same price.

Exleftseat

OT, but wonder why they price the TG combo 5k lower than the OZ/CA/NH combos?

Hartmann

I have to wonder if tickets that were reissued via different methods with flights past a year of issuance date will still be valid when one arrives at the airport.

Duke787

If the system re-tickets them with a new ticketing date isn't it irrelevant - aka once it's ticketed they have to honor it?

FWIW, I have changed one of mine recently and it fully ticketed and priced correctly (aka at the old redemption rates). I also received PNRs from each of the partner airlines I'm traveling on

Hartmann

Online does it still show the old ticketing date?

I have one that does. I reticketed it with two intra-Europe segments. Those segments recently dropped off and I am worried that if I try to fix it it will get canceled or, if I don't fix it, if I just show up at the airport, the ticket may be invalid.

Duke787

Hmm interesting. For mine I got the email / ticketing confirmation with the new ticketing date and the receipt under "view receipt" online lists that date too

sjl

I apologize ahead of time for the long story...

I had an award ticket booked on Jan 31, 2014 for Feb 25th 2014. Originally it was HNL-SGN-HNL-CUZ (35K HNL-SGN & 70K SGN-HNL (Stop)-CUZ) ticket was booked through my girlfriend's Platinum UA mileage account.

Award Activity - 1/31/2014 Combined Awards: YB72A|YB72E (105,000)

I had to made changes on our tickets on Feb 21, 2014 due to last minute schedule conflicts, I also found out my friend actually preferred to go to Bali instead so changed destination and date to Sept 2013 (same region) at the same time.

We were not able to go again and I had to push back the date to Nov 26 - the available return dates were a couple of weeks later and we wanted to only stay for 5 days but I booked it anyway so I could change it as the dates got closer. I also dropped the CUZ segment on my ticket which was scheduled for May 2015 just because it was just too much hassle with the agent who literally told me she was "tired" after making all the changes. I had been on the phone with her for over 1.5 hours because of glitches and her as well as her going back & forth with supervisor both insisting that SGN & DPS were NOT in the same region - that's why the ticket wouldn't work (Yes, I would have hung up and tried again but we had all the other changes made and I didn't want to start over with another agent) After showing her proof that they were the same regions on UA website, I was told after everything was finally done that I would receive 25K miles back.

When I checked my friend's account a few days later, I saw they redeposited 105K and charged her 120K. I called back and was told that my ticket was issued on Feb 21, 2014 so it was calculated at the new mileage. I said the account was deducted for both our tickets on Jan 31, 2014 shown clearly on my friend's account. She told me that's not what she sees so can't do anything for me...yada, yada...I do not know why the ticket issue date was changed to Feb 21, 2014. I still have the original copy of the confirmation email that UA sent for both our tickets on 1/31/14. I was told I'd have to call Mileage plus and have them figure it out. I didn't want to deal with double phone duty and decided to wait until I could get the right dates and do everything at once.

Today, I was finally able to find the correct return dates but had to push our trip up to 11/12 instead of leaving on 11/26. The agent was very competent and everything went smoothly until I asked her to make the refund of extra miles deducted from the account. Then I was on the phone for another hour as she went back and forth, etc...

After much back & forth, she insisted the ticket was supposed to be 145K and they refunded my friend's account 25K so that's why my friend's account was only charged 120K even after I dropped off the CUZ segment. after politely explaining again and her talking to the supervisor and MP, she told me they couldn't do anything - there had been too many changes and I would need to file a request with customer care.

At this point I am not sure what to do...I think my current existing R/T Business award ticket HNL - DPS (if booked at current rates should be 105K at the most) should be figured at the pre-devaluation rate which should be even less.

Please advise...? UAInsider, can you shed any light on this?

Thanks for reading.

FlyerBeek

Same for me. The new eTicket receipt (both email and online) show the new ticketing/issue date but the reservation still shows the date of original ticketing.

I highly doubt there will be any issues at the airport considering everything has already been reticketed/reissued, despite the face the flights are well beyond 1yr from original date of issue.

-FlyerBeek

dlflyer2

Me thinks United is playing games with the award tickets issued under the old award charts.

I've been trying to correct a problem from an award ticket that was not properly reissued and resulted in a dropped SQ flight. While being able to partially correct that problem, another has arisen.

Separate award tickets that had nothing to do with the problem flights were redeposited into my account. The award tickets were still active but had no current flights assigned.

United claims nothing can be done once the miles are redeposited. The answers sound too pat and the conspiracy part of me thinks that United may be taking advantage of any situation to get rid of the "old award" tickets.

Other experiences?

trustful88

It has kicked in as of today. Has anybody changed their minds about booking flights?

DebitNM

I have a one way flight from CDG to DEN. I booked a Business Saver ticket for 57,500 miles. It is 3 flights; the first 2 are in Business; the last from ORD to DEN is economy. Not a deal breaker. The TA part is on 777-300

I found seats on Aeroplan site [same Business Saver] for flight on LH/UA where the TA is on LH A 380. It is only 2 segments which is nice. Only catch - 70,000 miles. We don't have the extra and don't want to buy the miles. Aeroplan wants 45,000 miles but $358 in fees/tax/surcharge.

When I asked why the difference - agent said "because it it over water and the seats are on upper deck"

?? Is this correct?

Is there a way I can get the tickets with 45,000 points and not pay those crazy fees?