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EveryDay Awards - UA MP award changes 1 Nov 2017 (Everyday award/dynamic price, No RTW, No Show fee,..)
principle change - Standard awards being replaced by "EveryDay Award" with variable pricing
What is the Excursionist Perk?
Previous thread -- Updates to UA MP Multi-City Award Travel & Award Fee Changes (Post Oct 2016){Archive}
- No more free stopover - replaced with Excursionist Perk
- Agents no longer have the ability to find routings or build itineraries that do not show up on united.com
- Manually constructing trips using multi-city search results in multiple award fares being charged
- Changing any segment basically requires current availability for all existing Os&Ds in the PNR (as if a brand new booking is made)
- Singapore Airlines segments are priced separately (add-ons)
Useful Links
EveryDay Awards - UA MP award changes 1 Nov 2017 (Everyday award/dynamic price, No RTW, No Show fee,..)
principle change - Standard awards being replaced by "EveryDay Award" with variable pricing
What is the Excursionist Perk?
The Excursionist Perk is a free one-way award within select multi-city itineraries. Members who book an itinerary with three or more one-way awards will be eligible to receive one of those one-way awards for free, if it meets all of these conditions:
The Excursionist Perk cannot be in the MileagePlus defined region where your travel originates. (For example, if your journey begins in North America, you will only receive the Excursionist Perk if travel is within a region outside of North America.)
The Excursionist Perk cannot be in the MileagePlus defined region where your travel originates. (For example, if your journey begins in North America, you will only receive the Excursionist Perk if travel is within a region outside of North America.)
- Travel must end in the same MileagePlus defined region where travel originates.
- The origin and destination of the Excursionist Perk is within a single MileagePlus defined region.
- The cabin of service and award type of the free one-way award is the same or lower than the one-way award preceding it.
- If two or more one-way awards qualify for this benefit, only the first occurrence will be free.
Previous thread -- Updates to UA MP Multi-City Award Travel & Award Fee Changes (Post Oct 2016){Archive}
UA award booking, change questions / issues / routing / excursionist problems / help
Jan 23, 18, 7:23 am
#46
Join Date: Jan 2003
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I have an award ticket booked through UA on Copa in March (in Business, I-class). Anyone have any thoughts as to why they want to charge me $275 for baggage?
(Don't know if this matters, but one outbound leg is on Avianca.)
$275 baggage fee
(Don't know if this matters, but one outbound leg is on Avianca.)
$275 baggage fee
Jan 23, 18, 8:03 am
#47
Join Date: Jan 2016
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Yep. CM is normally non lie-flat seats. I chose to take AV when going to south america. Cheap business class availability awards and lie-flat beds. Only downside were long layovers in Bogota.
Jan 23, 18, 10:14 am
#48
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Jan 24, 18, 4:20 pm
#50
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Booking award online for two people
Maybe I misunderstood, but I was told somewhere I could book for two people using each person's Mileage Plus account number. That doesn't seem to be true when doing an online search. I do a search, select flights then it tells me I don't have enough miles in my account. There's no place to show Person1 ID is 1234 and Person 2 ID is 2345. Should I just call the reservation desk? Is there a way to do this online?
Jan 24, 18, 4:36 pm
#51
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Maybe I misunderstood, but I was told somewhere I could book for two people using each person's Mileage Plus account number. That doesn't seem to be true when doing an online search. I do a search, select flights then it tells me I don't have enough miles in my account. There's no place to show Person1 ID is 1234 and Person 2 ID is 2345. Should I just call the reservation desk? Is there a way to do this online?
m two MileagePlus accounts you need to book each person separately using the appropriate account that has the miles required for each booking.
Jan 24, 18, 4:44 pm
#52
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Feb 6, 18, 8:04 pm
#53
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: GUM/BOI
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Excursionist Perk / Stopover Question
I want to book a GUM-SYD-GUM award ticket. The routing options always put me through some Asian city on the way to SYD, and usually it involves two stops. For example, GUM-NRT-BKK-SYD. It's very rare to get a non-stop out of Japan on NH. If my routing is as I described earlier, GUM-(japan)-BKK-SYD----->GUM, can I use the excursionist perk to get a few days in BKK on the way to SYD? It doesn't price out correctly online. I suppose it's because I am traveling through three regions. It doesn't seem unreasonable to get a stopover on an itinerary like this. Do you think a stay in BKK can be done over the phone if I call within 24h post-booking?
Feb 6, 18, 8:30 pm
#55
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I want to book a GUM-SYD-GUM award ticket. The routing options always put me through some Asian city on the way to SYD, and usually it involves two stops. For example, GUM-NRT-BKK-SYD. It's very rare to get a non-stop out of Japan on NH. If my routing is as I described earlier, GUM-(japan)-BKK-SYD----->GUM, can I use the excursionist perk to get a few days in BKK on the way to SYD? It doesn't price out correctly online. I suppose it's because I am traveling through three regions. It doesn't seem unreasonable to get a stopover on an itinerary like this. Do you think a stay in BKK can be done over the phone if I call within 24h post-booking?
So, you could get a free SYD-AKL flight. Or, a free SIN-HKG flight, but you'd have to get yourself to SIN after you arrive in SYD. But you can't get a free BKK-SYD flight.
Feb 11, 18, 10:44 pm
#56
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SIN / FRA
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Award booking question: SIN-BKK / BKK-CGK - travelling within 24 hours
Hi all,
I have a question regarding an award booking I need to make today.
I have a business meeting in Bangkok tomorrow and another one in Jakarta the day after. So I need to fly SIN-BKK tomorrow morning (I am SIN based), then BKK-CGK the day after. Award space is available on both legs.
Now to my question - arrival to and departure from Bangkok are within 24 hours of each other, so I thought the award cost should be 25000 points in biz class.
However when going through the booking at United.com it ends up being 50.000 points. Is this correct?
I have a question regarding an award booking I need to make today.
I have a business meeting in Bangkok tomorrow and another one in Jakarta the day after. So I need to fly SIN-BKK tomorrow morning (I am SIN based), then BKK-CGK the day after. Award space is available on both legs.
Now to my question - arrival to and departure from Bangkok are within 24 hours of each other, so I thought the award cost should be 25000 points in biz class.
However when going through the booking at United.com it ends up being 50.000 points. Is this correct?
Feb 11, 18, 10:52 pm
#57
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If you can get the flights you want to appear on a SIN-CGK search, you can book them for 25K. If it requires multi-city search, it becomes 50K.
Feb 12, 18, 1:24 am
#58
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Feb 17, 18, 10:58 am
#59
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Excursionist Perk
How can the excursionist perk be of benefit if United will only allow you to fly from one European city to another city in a region but doesn't allow you to stay in either city for any time? EX. I would like to travel roundtrip or multi-city from the USA to Manila with a layover in Europe using my Award miles. (That trip requires 80,000 miles.) There is a United flight option that offers that route and I was told that I could add a "free flight" to another city in Europe. However, if I use that option and attempt to stay in the second European city for more that a few hours I am charged an additional 50,000 miles to continue my flight. WHY? How can it be considered a "perk" just to fly to another location in a region if you can't spend any time in that location?
Feb 17, 18, 11:19 am
#60
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It sounds like you're violating the Excursionist Perk rules by trying force a stopover in the 2nd Region (we'll call that Region B) before continuing on to Manila (we'll call that Region C) instead of continuing back to the US (we'll call this Region A).
The E.P. rules are quite clear on what's allowed and if you follow them, you'll see that the E.P. is not defined by time of stay. These rules were changed in 2016, so you may not be familiar with them:
MileagePlus Updates - Booking award flights
The E.P. rules are quite clear on what's allowed and if you follow them, you'll see that the E.P. is not defined by time of stay. These rules were changed in 2016, so you may not be familiar with them:
MileagePlus Updates - Booking award flights
