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Access to 016 tickets is not longer available via Saudia.com

Saudia.com UA e-ticket information accurate? (not longer avialable for 016 tickets?)

princeville

Thanks - missed that change. Is there any other way to verify it was re-issued properly? We had a messy situation last summer after a re-issue due to a schedule change wasn't done correctly but everything looked fine on the UA receipt and on the partner airlines' websites - showed "confirmed" and let us select seats and was blindsided at the airport. I'd really like to avoid that scene this time!

Kacee

Call the partner and ask them to confirm you're ticketed.

jsloan

If the ticket numbers didn’t change, that’s a pretty significant red flag for a change that involved a refund.

While calling the partner is never bad advice, in this particular instance I’d call UA first. I’d say “on XXX date I had to make a change to my reservation due to a schedule change. I’m concerned, because the ticket number doesn’t seem to have changed on my receipt, even though the change was pretty substantial and resulted in a partial mileage refund. Can you please verify that the ticket was re-issued properly, and then tell me the updated ticket number you see in your system?”

I would then call the partner airlines to verify that the ticket in their system is the same number as the one UA gave you, which almost certainly should be a different number than you have now.

I’d be a little wary of just asking the partner “is my reservation ticketed,” because they might see the old eticket number in their system and say “yes,” but when you got to the airport, you’d run into an issue because the coupon status is “Exhanged/Reissued” and you need the new ticket number.

princeville

Thank you. I'll give them a call.

Kacee

I wouldn't rely on UA. Good chance they'll tell you the ticket's fine even if it isn't. Thus the recommendation of calling the partner.

jsloan

BBSHOPSINGER

I have a really important trip in June, 2019, and I'm hoping to use my miles for business-class seats for my wife and me. We are planning on going DEN-CDG, CDG-FCO (1 week later, approx.), and FCO-DEN (approx. another week later). It's too soon to book, but being the fanatic that I am, I've been doing frequent test bookings, both far out and close in. The flights price out correctly when I do test bookings, including 0 miles for the CDG-FCO flights. Right now I could find acceptable flights looking out into April, 2019 (all on partners, no UA availability). I'm sure once June becomes available for booking inventory will tighten up considerably, however.

Here's my question: It would be nice to snag the one-way tickets for each direction as soon as I see availability pop up for my dates. If I ended up booking one-way DEN-CDG, and then later FCO-DEN, would it be possible to call and add the CDG-FCO leg? Since I an only a low-level elite, I don't have the luxury of booking and changing without fairly significant fees, so just booking as a placeholder wouldn't really work for me. Has anyone done this in the past? Any advice? Thanks.

zymm

Looking to book a one-way award ticked from somewhere in Australia to somewhere in South Asia or Japan for April 2019. Any suggestions on what routes are likely to have the best availability? Is it likely that Thai awards will be coming back post March 30th?

emcampbe

you can only get the intra-EU leg without additional mileage if you book both directions on the same reservation - can’t do it if you book these as one ways. Note booning as one ways have other disadvantages as well - mainly if you need to make changes or cancel, you’ll get dinged for two fees per person. But the one way does have the advantage of being able to secure flights for each direction the day they become available - if space is released.

if you want to do that (one ways) you can and just book CDG-FCO separately. You can probably book that pretty cheap on an EU LCC, or probably even on AF, for that matter. There’s also the option of booking the train. Not sure how long that is, but it’s a different and nicer travel experience, andI bet you can do it all the way on high speed.

jsloan

Or, if you'd prefer both to fly and to use UA miles, you could book BRU-FCO in Y for 8K miles. (CDG-FCO would be more unless there's some *A carrier that flies it nonstop). European business class is just coach with a blocked middle seat. Personally, I think you've hit on the right strategy -- if you see award space that fits your needs, book it as it becomes available, even if that means multiple one-ways.

The Excursionist Perk is great for many things, but intra-European J isn't one of them.

Mickchicago

mduell

UA doesn't want to make domestic premium cabins available on awards, married or otherwise.

Mickchicago

Ie it offers me two legs in economy but won’t match the economy award. It’s a worse connection. And still in economy

mduell

Sorry, misread.

This is the usual married/divorced inventory BS to make longhaul premium awards less desirable. Widespread practice by UA.