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Originally Posted by RobOnLI
(Post 34161226)
Some time last night I was auto-assigned seats for my flights on Friday. The short-hop to EWR I was assigned an aisle in E- on a CRJ550. The long haul I was assigned 32D which is an aisle. My profile says I prefer window so that obviously makes no difference in BE seating. The flight is on a 757-200 and oddly it shows that there is no middle seat in that row. EF confirms this. There is now only a single E- seat available for selection in the last row, a window. If there really is no middle seat in that row I'd be happy with the aisle.
So far I can say: I was not assigned E+ (not expecting it), I was given a seat about midway through the cabin based on the open seat map last night (meaning 1Ks aren't assigned seats first as far as I can tell), UA dumped all E- seats to BE roughly 2.5 days before the flight. I already cancelled that ticket and rebooked it this morning as the fare went down $20 :) We'll see what I'm re-assigned for a seat. I'm curious if it will happen during the day or if UA only does the assignment overnight, similar to how they're doing CPU processing now. Will continue to report back. PS - yeah, I plan to ask for E+ at the gate or the lounge in EWR. Hopefully they will accommodate me. -RM If OP is lucky, go to UC as early as possible. Hopefully, the remaining E+ seats are not assigned at that time. Good luck! |
Originally Posted by Kmxu
(Post 34161785)
If my detective work is correct, OP is going to take EWR-SNN tomorrow. UA is selling one business seat for this flight. There are five E+ seats unassigned, one window and the rest middle. In E-, there are eight unassigned seats, including previously assigned seat to OP (27D).
If OP is lucky, go to UC as early as possible. Hopefully, the remaining E+ seats are not assigned at that time. Good luck! |
Originally Posted by lsquare
(Post 34161799)
What is E-?
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Originally Posted by Flying Machine
(Post 34161837)
A regular seat not economy plus😀
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Originally Posted by Kmxu
(Post 34161785)
If my detective work is correct, OP is going to take EWR-SNN tomorrow. UA is selling one business seat for this flight. There are five E+ seats unassigned, one window and the rest middle. In E-, there are eight unassigned seats, including previously assigned seat to OP (27D).
If OP is lucky, go to UC as early as possible. Hopefully, the remaining E+ seats are not assigned at that time. Good luck! -RM |
Another update. UA has changed the plane to a different 757-200 config based on the exit rows going from 20/21 to 21/22 with row 21 not having A or F. It went from a 757-200 version 1 (with 169 seats) to 757-200 version 3 (with 176 seats). The flight is now J1 and Y0 with two blocked up front.
There are no E- seats for choosing and I was not auto-assigned a seat again. EF shows two seats still blocked (same two as previous aircraft - 25BC). I guess if there are no E- seats for assignment before check-in that I will get a "See agent" on my BP? -RM |
Originally Posted by lsquare
(Post 34161659)
How?
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Originally Posted by RobOnLI
(Post 34163264)
Another update. UA has changed the plane to a different 757-200 config based on the exit rows going from 20/21 to 21/22 with row 21 not having A or F. It went from a 757-200 version 1 (with 169 seats) to 757-200 version 3 (with 176 seats). The flight is now J1 and Y0 with two blocked up front.
There are no E- seats for choosing and I was not auto-assigned a seat again. EF shows two seats still blocked (same two as previous aircraft - 25BC). I guess if there are no E- seats for assignment before check-in that I will get a "See agent" on my BP? -RM |
Originally Posted by Flying Machine
(Post 34165014)
Just checking in to see if you’re gonna be making the trip and how you’re making out with your seating
All day I've been watching the seat map and while the flight remains J1 Y0, the seat map has slowly had quite a few seats open up including middle seats in E-. I was starting to get nervous as there was 1 E+ window, several E+ aisles and the exit row window available (the one with no seat in front of it). I almost bought the exit row for $60 but decided to wait. At T-23:10 I checked the seat map again and the window in E+ just disappeared (was there 10 minutes prior). My thought process is that as soon as I start the check-in process I'll be auto-assigned seats and they stick until I talk to someone in the lounge or at the gate. Well, I started OLCI and after getting the big orange warning about being on a basic economy fare I saw my seat assignments: 8D (E+ window for the short trip to EWR) and 8F (that one E+ window) for the long haul across the Atlantic. Somehow UA decided to auto assign me the last E+ window. THANK YOU, UNITED!! On both planes there are quite a few E- seats open. The EWR-TATL flight has 5 E-, 11 "Preferred" E- and about 5 E+. Interesting to note: during OLCI it tells me I can select an E+ seat for $35, similar to the poster above. However, I can only select an E+ seat on the 30 minute short hop to EWR. And it wants to charge me $35 even though I'm in an E+ seat already. For EWR-TATL, the seat map will only show me E- seats and offers no chance to buy an E+ seat even though there are 5 unassigned right now. Bottom line...I couldn't be happier (unless I'm able to take a bump and get comp for it and then route via FRA/MUC - haha). Still no idea why I got assigned E+ given the empty seats in E-. Note: after the auto-assignment happened Tuesday night, no other seats have been auto assigned from what I can tell. I also have not been assigned any seats for the return on Monday. PS - this is my first ever 'teal' colored boarding pass from the app. I'm not sure if this is a new color for "Travel Ready" (never was in the past) or it's a combo of Basic Economy + TATL? I thought Basic Economy was orange colored for BPs. Edit 2: I was finally offered a $35 fee to change my E+ seat on the EWR-TATL flight. I think the $35 offers are only valid once the 24 hour check-in opens for each flight. Since I'm already in the best available E+ seat for free I think I'll pass :) -RM |
Nice to hear that you ended up with the E+ Window on both flights! Enjoy your journey, I kept on saying it will all work out 😀
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United Airlines Is Changing Its Cancellation Policy for Basic Economy — What to Know
United Airlines just made a major change to its basic economy fares, allowing customers to cancel them for the first time, the airline shared with Travel + Leisure. ... Customers who choose to cancel a basic economy ticket will receive a flight credit for the price of their ticket, minus a fee. For domestic flights, the fee is $49.50 for one-way tickets and $99 for roundtrip tickets, while for international flights, the fee is $99.50 for one-way tickets and $199 for roundtrip tickets. |
Maybe they're counting on people who don't realize that they can buy up to regular economy and then cancel for no fee?
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Can someone confirm what is in the fare code to indicate a [TPAC] BE fare?
I'm looking at SFO-SIN in Jun-Jul, and can't seem to find reasonable price directly on UA, but can find something much cheaper searching on Kayak, which sends me to UA to purchase. Searching directly brings much higher prices (and doesn't bring up the routing), and using multi-city to recreate brings up a much higher fare in M/V class, vs. the V Kayak is showing me a K class - booking into fare basis KHW00SO2. This is going SFO-SEA-NRT-SIN (all on NH except first domestic leg, return is SIN-NRT-LAX-SFO (all on UA except SIN-NRT). Kayak seems to indicate this is in 'basic economy, economy'. I'm not getting the impression on the UA site that any of this is in 'basic' - I can select seats (NH TPAC flight is only showing middles, but maybe they charge for non-middle seats now?). Rules show the fare basis above, and specify 'change free of charge'. Is there any way this could actually be a basic fare? I'm thinking Kayak is displaying the BE incorrectly, but want to make sure. Appreciate any insight. |
Basic Economy is -B0 fares in this market; -O2 is a regular Economy fare.
Compare: Code:
V FARE BASIS BK FARE TRAVEL-TICKET AP MINMAX RTGCode:
V FARE BASIS BK FARE TRAVEL-TICKET AP MINMAX RTG |
Originally Posted by findark
(Post 34173069)
Basic Economy is -B0 fares in this market; -O2 is a regular Economy fare.
Just curious - what is the 'special fare' notation in both of the rules near the top. Don't recall that being in the fare rules I see normally. |
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