InterPlace55

Would all tickets booked on United.com start with a "016" for PQM purposes? I ended up finding a decent mileage run but the legs are split half and half between UA and NH metal.

EmailKid

Not necessarily.

Many airlines do not release all seat availability to their partners.

Kacee

Yes. If you book on united.com, the ticket will be on UA (016) ticket stock.

lskohn

A common issue, with too many common words to get answer in reasonable time searching: Going FLR-FRA-ORD tonight, with FLR-FRA on LH, FRA-ORD on UA, single 016 stock ticket. OLCI on the FLR-FRA segment was easy via LH site, but neither LH or UA will let me check in on UA945 using either apps or websites, even though we're within 24 hours of flight. I have both airlines' locator numbers.

This is critical because I want to check our bags all the way through to ORD, even though we are overnighting at the FRA HGI ... 12 hour 25 min layover. Is there any way to force the UA check in? Or will LH at FLR be able to issue boarding pass for UA945 sufficient to check the bags through? For extra points, is this too long a layover to be able to check bags through?
Thanks.

jsloan

Online check-in and baggage tagging are completely independent. You do not need a boarding pass for a flight to have your baggage tagged on it. LH may or may not be able to issue you a boarding pass at FLR, but it won't affect anything about their ability to check the luggage.

It'll be up to LH whether or not they'll check the luggage all the way through. You could try asking in their forum.

Kacee

LH agent will ask you at check-in at FLR whether you want to check them through or pick them up at FRA.

As already mentioned, checking in on UA has nothing to do with it.

maxp0wers

need two international partner J tickets together, but redeemed separately from different accounts. When i search award inventory for 2 people, i can do it.

Just making sure that the saver rate will not increase if we redeem one award, then the other, separately.

Basically, if i see 2 available at 70k, those 2 can be redeemed at the same price, separately. Or should i expect United to remove the saver award for the second award flight?

jsloan

If they're partner awards, the partners would be the ones removing inventory, not UA. Having said that, I would try to book simultaneously -- two different browsers on the same machine, or call your travel companion and synchronize your actions -- to reduce the likelihood of an intervening inventory adjustment by the partner airline.

If you're looking at a round-trip itinerary, and you don't need the Excursionist Perk, consider booking two one-way itineraries, one from each account. The cancellation fees would be higher, but you wouldn't have to worry about inventory issues, and there's less of a chance that you'd get separated during IRROPS.

cogitoergognome

Hi all - believe this is my first FlyerTalk post ever, so apologies if I'm doing this wrong or posting in the wrong section. I've tried to read through and learn as much as I can, but would greatly appreciate some help from the experts from this one:


I have:

• ~185K UR (with access to CSR portal)
• ~50k MR
• ~39K UA MP
• ~35K AA
• A friend I'll be travelling with who has 2 GPUs that could be used for both of us

I want to get from San Francisco to Casablanca in September, then from Marrakech back to San Francisco (we'll be doing an 11-day tour that takes us from Casablanca to Marrakech).

I have Premier Silver status on United and my friend is Premier 1K I believe (she must be, to have GPUs)?

If possible and not exorbitant, I'd love to be able to fly business or first class one-way; I read that Lufthansa's first class routing through Frankfurt is an amazing experience. But it seems like they only release award availability to partners (UA) 15 days before the flight, and that seems too risky given that SFO - FRA is likely a high-demand/busy route?

At this point, my current thinking is that I should:

• Buy SFO -> CMN one-way economy through the UR portal for 50-60K since that codes as a cash fare (can anyone confirm that?) and then my friend can use a GPU on it
• Transfer ~1K UR to UA to buy a saver economy one-way back from RAK -> SFO (40K UA)
• BUT... looking at the UR portal right now, one-way Lufthansa flights are way more expensive via UR then on United or Google Flights

Any suggestions, specific or not, would be incredibly helpful -- I'm trying to do research on my own, but there's so much info out there that I can't figure out if I'm missing something. Thank you very much!

WineCountryUA

Welcome to FT!. cogitoergognome
Your first issue will be http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...e-classes.html

LH or UA tend not be have discount international OWs.

cogitoergognome

Thank you; that was an illuminating thread to read through!

Based on that, it seems like booking one-way through Chase UR probably won't be worth it. Maybe instead of doing one-way via UA (or is the appropriate abbreviation here MP?) and one-way through Chase UR, I'll just have to either:

• Do round-trip via Chase UR and save the UA miles for a future trip;
• OR transfer more UR to UA and book two one-way award tickets through UA (though then I wouldn't be able to use GPUs to upgrade to biz/first)

One downside with booking both ways with Chase UR though is that Chase doesn't seem to let me search for a "multi-city" option; just one-way or round-trip --- so I couldn't do SFO -> CMN / RAK -> SFO, but rather would have to do SFO -> CMN / [train/taxi from RAK to CMN] / CMN -> SFO, or SFO -> RAK / [train/taxi from RAK to CMN], RAK -> SFO.

maxp0wers

Thank You! That helps.

findark

Chase travel bookings are just cash tickets. If you can price it separately, you can use Chase like a TA (call them) to book the ticket.

cogitoergognome

Got it, thank you. That's good to know - though now that I'm looking, it seems a round-trip to Casablanca instead of an open-jaw is cheaper by a couple hundred dollars, so we'll probably do that for ~88K UR on LH.

So I'll just need to make sure when booking through UR that it's a fare class that will allow me to apply a GPU afterward. And I'll need to figure out how to earn UA miles with the LH fare (I read that as long as it's not a (016) ticket, should be fine?), but that's a separate issue.

findark

If planning to use GPUs, I highly recommend booking the ticket with Chase by phone. You can construct a journey by segment and make sure that each segment is in the requisite fare class. Note that for an LH operated flight, the fare class requirement is different (and higher) than a UA flight.

If flying on a flight operated by LH, you will earn miles accordingly. Getting an 016 ticket (which is not a requirement for earning, although it will change how many RDM/PQD you earn) issued by an agency generally requires a UA flight, often the first flight.