WineCountryUA

As a single (including multi-city) ticket, voluntarily changing a segment leads to a reprice.
A schedule change can allow routing changes but generally origin or destination of up to 250 miles. If a schedule impacts the connection, UA may be willing to drop that first segmemnt without a repricing.

jsloan

There’s always a chance, but the policy is to reprice.

MUC-BCN is almost 700 miles. The schedule change would almost certainly have to be something that made that connection virtually impossible and where no good alternatives were available.

Xyzzy

United does not release seats on every flight. It could be that UA expects to be able to sell all of those seats and has nt released (m)any seats on that route.

oskidunker

Sometimes they reduce the miles required but not all the way. Example is a Melbourne to sfo direct flight which costs 250,000 one way in business. Sometimes that drops to 200,000. We grabbed the outgoing for a trip to auckland and are now watching hopefully reductions happen when next feb appears. We have to fly on a Wednesday so there might be hope. Idid see 100 k once but have no idea why. Usually within a month of travel

zitsky

I know there are tricks to check inventory. Is there any way to automate the checking of award availability?

Tiki

United is currently driving me crazy with re-issuing tickets that have flight time changes of 3-5 minutes. Nothing else changed. The routing is LIM-PTY on Copa PTY-IST-GZT on TK.
Is this normal?

I noticed that Copa has 4 flights from LIM-PTY. I am on the 06:45 flight. I was ok with this because I thought I would have lounge access in LIM being a Biz ticket. Apparently there is no *A lounge in LIM. And Amex cancelled my PP membership that came with my Hilton Surpass so I have no lounge access. I would prefer to go on the 02:25 flight and sleep on the plane and have lounge access in PTY as a J class ticket on TK. The problem seems to be that there is no current availability for the TK flights although the Copa flights are wide open. So I can't change it online. I would be at the airport anyways so I was going to try getting Copa to let me on the earlier flight when they have airport control. Is this possible?

WineCountryUA

UA is not the problem, it is the operating carriers making these changes, UA is just notifying you of what the operating carriers are doing.
These ticket re-issues can cause problems with partner flights.
check if CM uses the same contact lounge for business class as UA does -- Sumaq VIP
That is a question for the CM/COPA forum, but the concept of standby for an earlier flight is rare outside of the USA. {perhaps CM's history with UA , CM might have adopted standby)
Copa same day change/standby rules?

Kmxu

This is a new to me.
The first two segments are on UA in XN. The rest of this one-way trip are on a partner . The fare class is available if you just search AAA-CCC of UA segments. However, XN is not available for AAA-BBB but available for BBB-CCC if searching separately. So, I had to call Web Support to get the award trip booked. It was annoying because it took a long time to do so.

zitsky

I booked PP award RDU-SFO. December 2024. Chose exit row. Paid. Then issued refund for exit row. 160,000 one way total for two pax. Too much compared to 60,000 for return.

I was thinking to book PP award SFO-RDU January 2025. 60,000 total one way for two pax. No reason to do it now but why not? But if I want exit row again what is the proper way?

Any chance miles for outbound RDU-SFO will go down in the next 10 months?

I know I may lose PP but if that happens maybe we just do economy exit row.

We are thinking of maybe United in Polaris SFO-Asia paying cash if prices come down.

mahasamatman

Isn't that what children are for?

In this case, I'm sure the problem is with TK. I have the same issue with TK tweaking their schedules.

runmilerun

Hi, I booked a BKK-NRT flight (I class on TG) a while ago with the hope of adding the NRT-US leg when I inventory opens up close to departure. UA has now opened up NRT-SFO in I. The flights (BKK-NRT-SFO) show up in the change flight results but cannot be priced - see screenshot below. All the other change options can be priced correctly (i.e. same TG flight in I class + JN class on UA for 200K miles). Any idea why this might be the case? I thought it could be due to MCT violation at NRT (65 minutes), but ExpertFlyer shows that TG->UA at NRT has MCT of 45 minutes, and this itinerary shows up in ExpertFlyer's flight availability search so it appears valid. I know I would have to try calling but wanted to ask here first. Thank you!

WineCountryUA

Are you doing a change flight or a brand new Itin?
Is there present new I space on the TG flight.?

Adding a segment to an existing itin will usually be a problem unless new inventory. Many partners do not recognize award changes without new inventory.

runmilerun

I'm using the change flight function (not a brand new search) precisely because there is no I inventory now on TG. Have done this several times before without issue (i.e., keep an existing itin on NH/LH/etc and adding new segments later using the change flight function).

I understand that there could be issues if the partners don't allow change. But in this case, UA is displaying plenty of change flight options that allow me to keep the original TG flight in I, but only with a new UA leg in JN (200K miles) and not I (~110K miles). See screenshots below. So partner rules/restrictions don't appear to be an issue here. I find it interesting and wonder if it's a bug - why would the option even show up if it's not available across cabins? why is this the only option that is not bookable?

cfischer

call UA. While most agents don't like constructing award tickets these days, you might get lucky.

XCstud

I searched for award tickes in F from OGG - IAH on Jun 26 and found one ticket that showed up as mixed cabin for 50k miles as a "Premiers Save" but when i select it, every segment is in Y and it shows up as "XN" if i select it to book it. Is this a common occurence? Any idea why none of the segments are showing up in F?