Purchasing (Cash/Award) AC Premium Economy on UA ticket stock (016)
May 17, 2017, 3:54 pm
#46
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Rouge Plus is the first few rows of regular Rouge with extra pitch and nothing else. Just make sure you're buying the right product.
May 22, 2017, 9:19 am
#47
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caught in limbo, please help
Hi guys, I am hoping your can help me with my travel dilemma
I booked an economy flight through United for a trip from MSP to Milan. The flight is operated by Air Canada. I want to upgrade my seat to Premium Economy which exists with Air Canada, but not United. I tried calling both airlines and each directs me to the other and then finally they called each other and still could not figure out how to make this happen.
Have you ever came across this problem? If so, how was it resolved?
thank you!
I booked an economy flight through United for a trip from MSP to Milan. The flight is operated by Air Canada. I want to upgrade my seat to Premium Economy which exists with Air Canada, but not United. I tried calling both airlines and each directs me to the other and then finally they called each other and still could not figure out how to make this happen.
Have you ever came across this problem? If so, how was it resolved?
thank you!
May 22, 2017, 9:42 am
#48
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It's not possible to upgrade a UA plated ticket to premium economy on AC, except perhaps on the day of travel at the airport.
If you're still within the 24 hour ticket purchase window, my recommendation is to cancel with United and rebook with Air Canada.
If you're still within the 24 hour ticket purchase window, my recommendation is to cancel with United and rebook with Air Canada.
May 22, 2017, 12:13 pm
#49
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If it's outside of the 24-hour window however you might not be able to avoid paying a change fee. Also note that it requires switching to the native AC flight number.
May 25, 2017, 12:40 pm
#50
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Hi all,
Not a regular UA flier, but with some MP miles.
Can someone just confirm that it is not possible to book ANY Star Alliance Premium Economy product using United miles? I am specifically looking at EVA.
Thanks!
Joe
Not a regular UA flier, but with some MP miles.
Can someone just confirm that it is not possible to book ANY Star Alliance Premium Economy product using United miles? I am specifically looking at EVA.
Thanks!
Joe
May 25, 2017, 12:50 pm
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Sep 5, 2017, 10:35 am
#53
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Use UA miles to book AC Premium Economy?
Hi everyone,
I have 300k Mileageplus miles and I'd like to use them to book a trip to the UK for my family next summer.
We want to travel in Premium Economy, but I checked on the UA site and it doesn't list that. Does anyone have any idea how I can make this booking? I think I should have more than enough miles - it's just that I don't know how to make the booking.
Thanks in advance!
I have 300k Mileageplus miles and I'd like to use them to book a trip to the UK for my family next summer.
We want to travel in Premium Economy, but I checked on the UA site and it doesn't list that. Does anyone have any idea how I can make this booking? I think I should have more than enough miles - it's just that I don't know how to make the booking.
Thanks in advance!
Sep 5, 2018, 10:04 am
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Data: Mixed AC outbound and LF inbound ex-WAS booked via company TA PE on 016 stock. Effortless outside of having to manually enter the lower priced AC and LH fare codes. Both airlines defaulted to high fare buckets for PE and Y fares for connecting flights (eg IAD-YUL defaulted to Y when G was available).
Cheers.
Cheers.
Sep 5, 2018, 10:06 am
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That's because the PE fares map into Y on flights without a PE cabin. That shouldn't (necessarily) have been more expensive.
Sep 5, 2018, 4:47 pm
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I was wondering this too.
TAs, AFAIK, are able to do this, but it’s not within IATA protocol for sure, and violates the agreement with the airline to issue tickets on their stock. Airlines especially don’t like it since typically, TAs use the air carrier merchant accounts to run the charge, so not only is the airline not really getting (or at least keeping) any revenue since the fares go to the operating carrier, but they lose $ because they are paying to process the cards.
Most TAs won’t do this because, kind of like HCT, do it once and the airline probably won’t really do anything. But its probably pretty easy to find, and do it semi-regularly and there will be consequences - in this case likely fines and if it gets bad enough - flagrant and frequent, they probably will lose the ability to sell tickets using their stock.
TAs, AFAIK, are able to do this, but it’s not within IATA protocol for sure, and violates the agreement with the airline to issue tickets on their stock. Airlines especially don’t like it since typically, TAs use the air carrier merchant accounts to run the charge, so not only is the airline not really getting (or at least keeping) any revenue since the fares go to the operating carrier, but they lose $ because they are paying to process the cards.
Most TAs won’t do this because, kind of like HCT, do it once and the airline probably won’t really do anything. But its probably pretty easy to find, and do it semi-regularly and there will be consequences - in this case likely fines and if it gets bad enough - flagrant and frequent, they probably will lose the ability to sell tickets using their stock.