extreme_panda

Just personal preference. I'd rather sleep in a bit and fly 10.5 hours non stop than get to the airport four hours earlier to fly to EWR and sit in the airport for 2 hours.

Kmxu

Did you try to change your flight departing one day earlier? Because international flights are pretty empty, UA should let you depart a day earlier.

cfischer

right, but what are your options here? At least you have lie-flat all the way guaranteed. IAH-LHR is not bad, does that work?

tr3k

Bump. Can really use some help.

flyingpbandj

Hello all, while checking one of my flights for September 11, I was notified that I had changes. It went from a 1-stop to a 2-stop flight (originally SAL -> IAH -> YVR, now SAL -> IAH -> SFO -> YVR). I tried to check the changes on my phone but I ran into an error, and when I logged into the website the changes were automatically accepted and I get the following message:

"A modification has been made to your itinerary. Please reach out to United Reservations or contact your travel agency to have your ticket reissued."

I contacted United and they say that if they reissue my tickets, I won't be able to do any further changes if a 1-stop option is available again with the fare difference waived. At the moment I've decided to keep the itinerary unticketed. Is there any risk in waiting for a little longer to see if a 1-stop option becomes available closer to departure date?

Thanks!

jlgarner

My fiance and I are planning our honeymoon and have a "confirmed" reservation returning from BCN via ZRH and SFO on LX metal (with overnight layover and SFO-HNL on UA). Booked a saver award in I on the LX segments and waitlisted for I on the UA segment. Our itinerary has been changed a number of times and the automatic re-routing has always worked so I've left it alone. However, now I check and see that the BCN-ZRH-SFO segments (confirmed I on LX) have apparently been un-confirmed.

I'm going to call to try and change to UA-metal BCN-EWR-HNL to drop a stop and confirm lie-flat the whole way home. Does this count as a "change" so that UA will open up space if there's no saver space available?

fumje

Eh that sounds like nonsense. Just save some screenshots of the reservation on the website now and then ask them to reissue. If a one-stop itinerary shows up again you can call in to ask to be put back on it no problem.

That said, it's unlikely they'll reinstate anything that would give you a one-stop for September.

mahasamatman

I would think so.

WineCountryUA

Before anything you need to call and understand what has happened.

May be, May be not -- could just be a ticket sync issue.

However for the purpose of a change, you started back with the original ticket. It is the change from that ticket that matters, not the latest delta change.

jlgarner

Thank you! Inquired on Twitter (my preferred method of contact with UA recently) and ~3h later confirmed BCN-EWR-HNL in I the whole way. I�m sure the UA service will pale in comparison to LX, but the UA schedule is significantly more convenient.

N104UA

I would be careful on this, UA will refund to the original form of payment. If you cancel get a credit and rebook they may only offer you credit or at best a travel cert. When is your flight? I honestly would just wait to see if your flight changes then call to cancel or wait until the week of and cancel and take the travel credit.

I would hang up and call again, and when they reroute ask them to note on your reservation that you previously had a one stop.

travelingman79

Has anyone had success getting UA to reroute to a different *A flight when the original fare class/bucket is not available (but same cabin is) on the desired flight?

I have a ticket issued by UA on UA stock with purely LX metal flights. After a schedule change required a forced overnight, I'd like to reroute via LH but they only have a higher fare bucket available (no flights with original fare bucket available on any *A carrier).

UA are claiming the only thing they can do is shift me to a routing for that leg that is purely on UA metal because they can override fare class restrictions on UA but not other *A carriers.

WineCountryUA

per UA's Jetstream site for travel agencies for a greater than 2 hour change involving a partner flight
So the change of carrier is allowed IF the original fare rules included other carriers.

Essentially you are asking the new carrier or UA to pick up the fare differential because of the original carrier's change.

cfischer

yes, on UA codeshare flights they can. So as long as this has a UA flight number it shouldn't be a huge problem for them. On LX code that will be more problematic. They have done that for me on LH from time to time during close-in irops (blizzard forecast NE and I needed to fly out a day earlier via MUC to PEK instead of via EWR)

travelingman79

Thanks for the link to Jetstream. Original fare rules allowed UA/LH/LX/OS, so this should be OK.

I was able to find UA codeshares for the LH flights I wanted. The change was made with one HUACA. No call to rate desk, supervisor approval, etc. � very easy once I was connected with a knowledgeable, capable agent.