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How to book LH F awards? when available? issues? {Archive}
Jan 13, 2014, 4:30 pm
#46
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Don't know anything about the fare bucket but 1 seat ORD-FRA 4 days out.
Same timing but MCO-FRA.
Fun fun.
Same timing but MCO-FRA.
Fun fun.
Jan 13, 2014, 4:37 pm
#47
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Need advice/reality check:
Should I just be happy w/ the YVR-FRA in old LH F, or grab SEA-FRA w/ the 1 hr connect and hope the earlier SFO-SEA flight opens up before departure? Factor in that there's always a chance of equip swap to old FC and that the earlier SFO-SEA flight is a CRJ, which means schlepping over to T-1 at SFO, which I find to be a major PITA.
Should I just be happy w/ the YVR-FRA in old LH F, or grab SEA-FRA w/ the 1 hr connect and hope the earlier SFO-SEA flight opens up before departure? Factor in that there's always a chance of equip swap to old FC and that the earlier SFO-SEA flight is a CRJ, which means schlepping over to T-1 at SFO, which I find to be a major PITA.
Jan 13, 2014, 4:39 pm
#48
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Jan 13, 2014, 6:31 pm
#49
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Need advice/reality check:
I have a SFO-YVR-FRA booked in UA-BF and LH-F. Lufthansa FC tool shows old config. I doubt there's any chance of an equip swap to new FC out of YVR until they switch to the 744's at the end of the month.
Another possibility is SFO-SEA-FRA. LH tool shows new config, but no availability for saver award on the SFO-SEA leg, except in Y on a flight with 1 hr connect time, which I think is cutting it too close in SEA. Being in Y on the SFO-SEA flight is not really an issue, but I'd be very concerned about the short connect time.
Should I just be happy w/ the YVR-FRA in old LH F, or grab SEA-FRA w/ the 1 hr connect and hope the earlier SFO-SEA flight opens up before departure? Factor in that there's always a chance of equip swap to old FC and that the earlier SFO-SEA flight is a CRJ, which means schlepping over to T-1 at SFO, which I find to be a major PITA.
I have a SFO-YVR-FRA booked in UA-BF and LH-F. Lufthansa FC tool shows old config. I doubt there's any chance of an equip swap to new FC out of YVR until they switch to the 744's at the end of the month.
Another possibility is SFO-SEA-FRA. LH tool shows new config, but no availability for saver award on the SFO-SEA leg, except in Y on a flight with 1 hr connect time, which I think is cutting it too close in SEA. Being in Y on the SFO-SEA flight is not really an issue, but I'd be very concerned about the short connect time.
Should I just be happy w/ the YVR-FRA in old LH F, or grab SEA-FRA w/ the 1 hr connect and hope the earlier SFO-SEA flight opens up before departure? Factor in that there's always a chance of equip swap to old FC and that the earlier SFO-SEA flight is a CRJ, which means schlepping over to T-1 at SFO, which I find to be a major PITA.
Last edited by iluv2fly; Jan 13, 2014 at 8:45 pm Reason: merge
Jan 13, 2014, 7:50 pm
#50
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Oh well...That'll teach me for being indecisive.
Jan 13, 2014, 8:15 pm
#51
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For example, if you are trying to search for DFW-FRA for tomorrow, set your search for FRA-DFW with he outbound and return dates for tomorrow. The return segment will show the availability for the segment you are interested in.
Jan 14, 2014, 10:51 am
#52
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Help - UA only sees 1 LH F Award at a time
I'm flying LH tomorrow and was able to verify via ANA and AC websites that LH has 2 F class award seats available for my flight. I was even able to "reserve" these two seats using United's website.
I have an existing F class award reservation with ms. navi-c all on the same ticket with the same LH flight booked in business (no F availability at time of booking). When I call united to bump us up, they tell me they only see 1 F award seat available so they can't do the upgrade.
A clever agent, went ahead and reserved one of the seats and saw that poof another F class award seat was still available - so there really are two F class award seats currently available. THis is not phantom inventory, the United computer system just sees them 1 at a time.
They still claim however that without starting a new ticket (and losing all my connecting flights) they can't upgrade us to LH F. Are there any tricks / tips I can give the agent so they can force the system to see both award seats? Can we call Lufthansa? It seems like this is a computer glitch and since I've paid for F class award I was really hoping to check out LH F on the 747-8!!
Any help is greatly appreciated. If more info is needed please let me know!
I have an existing F class award reservation with ms. navi-c all on the same ticket with the same LH flight booked in business (no F availability at time of booking). When I call united to bump us up, they tell me they only see 1 F award seat available so they can't do the upgrade.
A clever agent, went ahead and reserved one of the seats and saw that poof another F class award seat was still available - so there really are two F class award seats currently available. THis is not phantom inventory, the United computer system just sees them 1 at a time.
They still claim however that without starting a new ticket (and losing all my connecting flights) they can't upgrade us to LH F. Are there any tricks / tips I can give the agent so they can force the system to see both award seats? Can we call Lufthansa? It seems like this is a computer glitch and since I've paid for F class award I was really hoping to check out LH F on the 747-8!!
Any help is greatly appreciated. If more info is needed please let me know!
Jan 14, 2014, 11:02 am
#53
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Oof, good luck. It may not be true that LH is really willing to release 2 seats for sure here — I have seen a situation where someone did something like this (sold one seat & ticketed it, sold a second seat & tried to ticket it) and amazingly ended up with a *waitlisted* LH award with a ticket but no confirmed reservation.
Jan 14, 2014, 11:34 am
#54
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Thanks mherdeg for the data point. I've heard of folks being able to get 2x F LH *award* seats but wasn't sure if it was possible with a single PNR (with two people) or if they booked as separate, one person per PNR.
Just trying to understand if it's a limitation of the system or if there is still hope that 2x LH F award seats will become available in UA's system.
(thanks mods for merging, I did try search!)
Just trying to understand if it's a limitation of the system or if there is still hope that 2x LH F award seats will become available in UA's system.
(thanks mods for merging, I did try search!)
Last edited by navi-c; Jan 14, 2014 at 12:59 pm
Jan 14, 2014, 12:44 pm
#55
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Thanks mherdeg for the data point. I've heard of folks being able to get 2x F LH seats but wasn't sure if it was possible with a single PNR (with two people) or if they booked as separate, one person per PNR.
Just trying to understand if it's a limitation of the system or if there is still hope that 2x seats will become available in UA's system.
(thanks mods for merging, I did try search!)
Just trying to understand if it's a limitation of the system or if there is still hope that 2x seats will become available in UA's system.
(thanks mods for merging, I did try search!)
Jan 14, 2014, 4:37 pm
#58
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Just wanted to update, after being persistent in calling/hanging up/calling back - the two seats opened up around T-27 hours (I can give up to the minute too 
). Thanks to everyone whose posted and to FT in general. This is going to be one hell of a ride (LH F 747-8, TG B A380, TG F 747)!!
). Thanks to everyone whose posted and to FT in general. This is going to be one hell of a ride (LH F 747-8, TG B A380, TG F 747)!!
Jan 14, 2014, 4:48 pm
#59
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Jan 14, 2014, 5:18 pm
#60
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Booked NRT-->FRA and FRA-->IAD today. Found "O" space on both flights at T minus 14 days, although the FRA-->IAD space only showed up on the ANA website and not on UA's website.