quintic

Luckily for me, I booked a saver award this morning. Pretty much the only seat in my preferred time range. I have been monitoring the inventory for the week, and planning for alternative route. The inventory goes out fast even without the snow storm.

Maximum404

I am booking a two segment one-way flight (return from tour overseas for uncle sam) for 4 people and two pets on ANA and can't seem to book the flight on a single itinerary. I am trying to book these two flights on a single itinerary. If I do a multi-city it works (20hr layover which is fine) but I have to drop an extra 32,000 miles. Is there anything I can do? Thank you!!

NH 2158 OKA to NRT on 23JAN19 at 1155
NH 2 NRT to IAD on 24 JAN19 at 0915

WineCountryUA

Unfortunately this is a common issue with the award booking engine for the past couple of years. Multi-city will now always force multiple awards and the search engine does not report all available options.

It is reporting any options?
Are you limited to ANA/NH due to the pets?

It is always worth a call but doubtful they will see anything better. You can try to ask for some special consideration due to your circumstances but that is likely to fail also (but may be worth a try).

abhilife2001

Will checking segment wise and then calling to book work similar to when we check for two OW itineraries and then call to get them booked as a r/t ?

Maximum404

No options and I am restricted due to pets...I'll try to call I guess.For this I'd be happy to eat the 32,000 miles. The customer service difference when traveling with kids is worth that alone.

threeoh

Mixed results upthread about booking the overseas segment and then calling to add a domestic (USA) segment without extra charge. Might be worth a try to add the domestic (Japan) segment. Might be worth a try.

WineCountryUA

Generally no, building itins from separate segments seem to be a target item in the 2016 changes.

PsiFighter37

dj903jd

I have MileagePlus miles and I am looking to 'combine one-way segments' into a single one-way award ticket in economy, and I read some conflicting information online about whether this is still possible with United.

My understanding is that if I find the one-way segments on united.com (or other Star Alliance site), I should be able to call in and combine them into a single award ticket, provided they meet some basic routing criteria etc. I have done this with AAdvantage miles but I hadn't realized it is possible with United.

I will begin in Japan and end in the U.S. east coast, so it should be straightforward to find something satisfactory with 2 stops or 3 if necessary with less than 12 hours per stop.

One question I have is, how do I know how many miles it will cost before I call in? I notice that some awards (within a particular class of service) on the site are priced higher than others. For the combined itinerary, will this just be determined by the constituent segments' mileage costs, i.e. whether they are normal or higher than normal? I am looking to keep it to the standard 35k saver fare between these two regions.

Thanks

WineCountryUA

Generally this is no longer possible on UA without increasing the mileage

Combining multiple one-way segments on a single PNR is very easy. Combining them as a single award may not be possible unless the system provides it as an option. Using multi-city will guarantee multiple awards.


Doubtful will be to get the system to provide that as a single award.


This will depend on if the system allows them as a single or multiple awards. Also, depends on if they are available as saver awards or require EveryDay awards (which are dynamic and vary). You can test on online or just be "surprized "

findark

I was doing some US-Europe searching, and have found a very large number of flights which appear to be I1. This might be a dumb question, but is this normal? Over the course of two summer months, it seems that every single partner flight with I space is offering exactly one seat. I suppose it's possible, but this feels pretty weird. Anyone seen anything like this before? I can't think of a good way to query full inventory directly, as EF won't show counts of award inventory and UA shows codeshares, but I did use the EF award tool and it agrees with 1 seat on the flights I checked.

Kacee

Could be related to their contract with Chase. They can say they are offering business saver awards on a higher number of flights this way.

747FC

I=0 seems to be the new normal in all my searching, at least T~330. However, if you want to go to KEF from EWR in late September, there are a number of days that I=2.

findark

I was specifically looking at partner awards in May/June/July (UA is mostly zero across the board except the EWR-MAN with its odd upgauge to 764, but that's normal). I see a lot of EWR/ORD-WAW and some YVR-FRA, YYZ-DUB, ORD-VIE, etc. but every single one seems in all respects to have only one award seat. I was not aware of a pattern of *A partners opening only one seat, and otherwise find it a bizarre coincidence that every seat is a singleton.

I might try poking it by booking one and seeing if it remains available. ORD-VIE isn't as nice as a West Coast nonstop, but everyone has such great things to say about the soft product on OS.

Kacee

Better for a daytime flight than an overnight. Thompson Vantage seat.