WineCountryUA

Does not need to be 016 ticket stock to use RPUs

However, if it is a published fare on 016 ticket stock, I would suspect Incorrect / Ineligible PQD / PQM / RDM information showing on my itinerary
Wait till post-flight and see what a happens-- there is nothing you can do at this point.

foxberg

Hi, I'm very new to UA, thinking of switching from AA. I can't find any info on the earning structure of PQD, PQM and RDM for booking through Vacations. It's pretty straight forward on AA. Thanks!

WineCountryUA

First , United Vacations is a third party travel agency that is neither owned or operated by United Airlines or UCH (note using the site one would think different)

It does have a special marketing relationship with United/ Generally the air travel bookings with be on UA ticket stock and earn the normal structure for UA tickets.
Believe you do earn RDMs for some non-airline activities with United Vacations but not PQMs or PQDs.

Note some have reported the airfare portion when using UV can be a BULK ticket and therefore earned no PQDs

foxberg

So, I guess unlike AA they are able to separate the airfare portion from the hotel spend then. Not nearly as good as AA then for the purpose of earning PQD and RDM, since on AA it's based on the percentage of distance flown on vacation bookings. Thanks!

Exleftseat

Family is looking into US to FRA flight and find r/t fare on UA at around $ 1,600.00 p.p. Booking on UAV, incl. throwaway hotel, brings it down to $ 797.00 ea, quite a difference. Trying to educate me though this thread. They are not worried about lack of credits, mile or otherwise. Seating is the point of contention. On the UAV generated seatmaps all E+ seating incl. exit rows are blocked ( everything is wide open on the UA seatmap ). They are all 1K. Is it a given that after booking with UAV that the reservation will show under their UA MP account and then the seatmap will show ( as it does now on UA ) with the possibility of choosing E+ and/or exit row seats? Or does a UAV bulk fare precludes them from choosing seats in the front of the Y cabin?

sierranevada

I booked a UAV trip to Hawaii and had no problem getting E+/exit row seats by going to my UA app.

Exleftseat

Great. I will suggest to them to try it and see how it works out. Savings are just too significant to ignore it. Thanks for the reply.

SeamusSA

For some (probably technical) reason the seat maps on UAV are notoriously inaccurate. Just go ahead and purchase on UAV then when ticketed go to UA.com to choose seats. Have done this multiple times, never a problem.

Exleftseat

Thanks, appreciate the confirmation. It will make them feel much more at ease. Whole family suffers from paranoia as to where to sit on an airplane.

dingo

This is a seat map from a UA vacation booking that I was about to make. Business class on this 767 from ORD - AMS is seriously a 2 x 2 x 1 config? I'm guessing not but I've no experience with UA for the last 15 or so years. They have myriad 767 configurations and this booking doesn't tell me which one it is. It is flight 909 on 6/6 FWIW.

Is there a summary of the various 76X configurations in business, how to figure out which one is flying what routes, etc.? And if I see this config can I assume it to be correct and assume it to be at the very least a 1 x 2 x 1 config?

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jsloan

UA does not have a 2 x 2 x 1 config. They do have a 2 x 1 x 2 config, which is what that seatmap should be. A and B are adjacent, as are K and L; D is a column by itself. The seat map on United's website is much more clear.

They are converting some of their 767s to a 1-1-1 configuration (it's tighter than it sounds; the rows all interleave). So, it's possible that you might get your plane swapped to that configuration prior to departure; about half of the total 767-300 fleet is currently 1-1-1.

dingo

This is from the UA vaca website; so not UA but presumably one over which they exert control.

Thank you. Though, kind of surprised that lie flats, which I think these to be, are in a config that still has people climbing over each other to get out.

How can I tell if these are Polaris, or are they certainly not based on the config? Are all flights to Europe in lie flats or are some angled?

jsloan

Every UA business class seat on a wide body is lie-flat.

Direct aisle access is a relatively new phenomenon in J; UA was an early adopter of lie-flat business class seating and it wasn't yet available when they made their purchasing decisions. (That's a big part of the impetus of the Polaris retrofit).

Polaris seats will appear in blue on the seat map on United.com. Non-Polaris seats will appear in orange. The 2-1-2 config is not Polaris. The 1-1-1 config is.

UA doesn't generally show the Polaris configuration on a 767 in advance, in order to reduce the number of complaints they get if a swap occurs. The actual seat map is generally finalized about three days prior to departure (but is still subject to swapping even after that based on operational considerations).

WineCountryUA

UA vacations is an independ3th party of which UA has no control or interest -- BUT UA licensed their linkage to United site.


So this is a UA Vacations website issue

For more on 763 seating , see 767-300 2-Class
and the Polaris seat version
767-300 v3 -- Polaris seat
Most of the older 763 sets will be gone in 2020