findark

I agree that revalidate-not-reissue is the source of the issue. You are probably fine as is - UA sees the reservation fine and is your checkin point for that segment. If you have the time, I would give NZ a ring as it's on their ticket stock, and see if they can see that the reservation is in order. If they tell you to go deal with the OTA, I would give it up as a lost cause and assume that everything will just go smoothly.

Kacee

Score!

Agree.

So long as each operating carrier sees its segment, I don't think there will be a problem. (Though the Saudia error would give me a brief pause as well.)

sfo789

Thanks both! Will give NZ a call. Saudia error is strange to me, certainly: I should have tried to pull the ticket on Saudia pre-GPUing it to see whether that was the specific cause, but it has definitely nudged me to confirm there's nothing catastrophically broken with the ticket.

gene2632

Booked on UA 1533, EWR to LAS this Saturday. Two lowly Silvers so I was checking to see what our chances were to grab some E+ seats on Friday at T-24. Did a phantom booking to see what seats were left and all it shows are 4 seats in F. Zero in coach, not coach fares displayed. Logged in to my account and looked and saw 20+ unassigned seats plus the 4 in F. Soooooo, am I right in guessing that there are lot of BE travelers on this flight? It is interesting because there is a flight 45 minutes earlier with a ton of empty seats.....

findark

It's probably a good guess. I see right now:

28OCT17 EWRLAS UA1533 : F2 P1 Y1 E0 N1

The earlier flights aren't exactly empty, but they do have a few more seats.

jsloan

They've opened one seat for sale in Y since you posted your message; it's now F2 Y1. There's a good chance that the flight is oversold in coach by a passenger or two, which they're planning to resolve with upgrades or buy-ups. And, yes, while nobody is required to choose a seat assignment, the most likely reason that there would be several perfectly good E- seats available is a surplus of BE travelers.

gene2632

Thanks. We have seats now in E- on the aisles in row 22. I expect that I will be able to grab some E+ aisles at T-24 if I am quick about it. If not the E- aisles are not the end of the world. I also have a MUA in for both of us but I don't expect it to clear. The biggest thing for me is just getting there to enjoy the winter with my grandchildren .

threeoh

Coming from an INTL gateway like EWR, I would assume some of the unassigned seats are people connecting from overseas flights on partner metal or UA metal but booked through codeshare.

Also if the only E- seats available are middles, I don't pick a seat and hope something will open up later or I'll win the E+ lottery, so that could be why too.

raghu

We had three business class MileagePlus awards for BOM-ZRH-MIA (by Swiss) for Jan 3, 2018 -- originally ticketed in May 2017.
Yesterday, our tickets were reissued, due to a 5 minute schedule change (arrival, not departure) in BOM-ZRH. Did not ask, the reticketing happened on its own.

But, we also had another business class AMD-BOM-ZRH-MIA (first flight by Air India, second and third by Swiss) award ticket (only one passenger on this day), issued in June, for Jan 9. The BOM-MIA segment again has the same 5 minute change, and when we checked the itinerary today it asked us to accept the schedule change. But this has not been re-ticketed.

Why was the first one (flights on Jan 3 BOM-ZRH-MIA) re-ticketed, while the second one (starting Jan 9, AMD-BOM-ZRH-MIA) not re-ticketed?

I called to ask why the second itinerary was not re-ticketed, and reached the Philipplines center -- on three consecutive occasions, and the agents were frustrating, to put it mildly. They just could not understand.

Any suggestions?

cheaptom

I'm not certain, but my educated guess is that the additional Air India segment on the Jan 9 flight is tagged differently in the system, and that is your discrepancy.

Unrelated...be careful in AMD. That's where I was flying AMD-SIN-LAX, but they tagged my bag as going to LAS.

wpcoe

Last Sunday (22-Oct) I flew SAN-LAX-CUN-MID (UAX P/UA P/VW G) on a 016 ticket booked via united.com. The MP accrual info I got before I flew the trip said "Ineligible to accrue mileage or Premier qualifying credit" for the VW (Aeromar) segment CUN-MID:



The VW inflight magazine had a full-page ad saying that credit to MileagePlus would accrue on VW flights. Curious, I found a united.com web page for Aeromar travel which indicates there is "5 x fare" credit for Aeromar travel on 016 stock. The itinerary was constructed using Multiple Segments (SAN-CUN + CUN-MID) and IIRC it was priced with the VW segment $90 in addition to the SAN-CUN fare.

Now (five days after the flight), there is no credit for the VW segment on my MP account.

Before I make a phone call and embarrass myself, is it correct that I appear to have been eligible for MP credit on the VW flight?

findark

Yes, looks like you should get RDM only. I would give it two weeks before calling though - I think that's the official deadline for partner flights to post and generally speaking you may get stonewalled otherwise. Also double check that the gross PQD for the outbound is higher than 428 (or whatever did post for SAN-LAX-CUN).

joe_miami

Is the in-flight flight tracker on UA supposed to be free or is there a fee? Every time I tried to activate it on a recent flight to PTY, the system asked me to swipe my credit card. Thanks.

WineCountryUA

The flight tracker available on wifi / PDE is free.
The flight tracker via DirecTV equipped aircraft is only available after purchase (if not in first).

joe_miami

Thanks. I'm new to UA status (and upgrades) and didn't realize the various differences. I was almost positive I had used it earlier on this trip for free via the seatback IFE, but that must have been when I was upgraded. (Seems rather nickel-dime of UA to charge for it in E.)