Purchased business class itinerary, can I choose E+ seats on CRJ200 legs?
Jun 5, 2017, 1:59 pm
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Believe me: as an AA elite, I tried everything I could think of to get AA to price it. I can fly whatever carrier I like as long as the costs are *reasonably* in the same ballpark. I tried doing an MCI-LIM-MCI plus a LIM-EZE-LIM. I tried one-ways, I tried routing through Panama on a crappy 737... No matter what, the EZE-MCI piece was going to be $3k-4k by itself.
United priced the whole thing for under $3k, with widebodies on the long hauls. So I flew United in J with no status. I forget if there was a CR2 in there on the MCI-IAH piece...I want to say there was a small RJ, and it didn't have much E+ to begin with.
Jun 5, 2017, 2:40 pm
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Jun 6, 2017, 5:19 am
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If it helps, UA isn't the only airline with this policy. I booked B6 J (Mint) BOS-LAX via JFK (this was last year, before they added Mint to the BOS-LAX nonstop), and discovered to my surprise that I could not select an Even More Space (B6' version of E+) on the BOS-JFK leg.
A call to customer service resulted in a very surprised agent agreeing that this was a stupid policy, and manually assigning me an E+ seat.
A call to customer service resulted in a very surprised agent agreeing that this was a stupid policy, and manually assigning me an E+ seat.
Jun 6, 2017, 8:08 am
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I think the worst was from a few years back: you could have an international full-F ticket with a connecting segment in E- on Ted!! 
Further proof that contrary to their slogan, Ted did indeed hate you.
Further proof that contrary to their slogan, Ted did indeed hate you.
Jun 6, 2017, 10:32 am
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Zero. But certainly if they have a system where they can figure out how to code so that when checking in on a flight with a Y segment followed by an F segment = no checked bag fees, they can code for any itinerary that has an F segment, any Y segment allows E+ cost of $0.
Jun 6, 2017, 1:14 pm
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Jun 6, 2017, 1:55 pm
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Not that the ERJ-145 is wonderful, but mentioning it in the same sentence with the CR2 is a terrible injustice. 
. 18A is head and shoulders above anything available on the CR2 -- and is unique among UA Economy seats in having pretty good legroom and being both window and aisle at the same time.....
. 18A is head and shoulders above anything available on the CR2 -- and is unique among UA Economy seats in having pretty good legroom and being both window and aisle at the same time.....