Current R availability TPAC
Dec 21, 2017 | 7:44 am
#16
Join Date: Oct 2009
Programs: All of them, UA-Plat, 1MM*G
Posts: 896
Remember when nonstop UA routes to SIN were first announced? The general feeling on the board was that UA would fail to be able to make the flight work on a 789. And remember when SQ announced that it, too, was going to reinstate nonstops on 359s? The general feeling on the board was that UA was going to get creamed. Now all the complaints are about the lack of R space on UA's SIN flights.
Dec 21, 2017 | 10:52 am
#18
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: BOS
Programs: UA 1k
Posts: 159
How do you get this to work from a non hub ? I'm at BOS and there is NEVER any R space to China (or Europe). I checked dates from my next trip to HKG and EWR<->HKG has R space available. However if I do BOS<->HKG routing through the exact same flights, it goes back to wait list. Help ?
Dec 21, 2017 | 10:59 am
#19
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 12,778
How do you get this to work from a non hub ? I'm at BOS and there is NEVER any R space to China (or Europe). I checked dates from my next trip to HKG and EWR<->HKG has R space available. However if I do BOS<->HKG routing through the exact same flights, it goes back to wait list. Help ?
However, you can clear upgrades based on individual segments, so you can apply an upgrade to the whole itinerary, and EWR<>HKG will clear while BOS<>EWR will be waitlisted.
Last edited by fumje; Dec 22, 2017 at 6:39 am Reason: missing word
Dec 21, 2017 | 11:36 am
#20
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: United Premier 1K 1MM; AA Plat Pro; Hyatt Globalist; Marriott Platinum; Avis President's Club
Posts: 2,614
Have always found R space IAD-NRT-IAD sometimes far out, often closer in to flight time. ICN is relatively open but the shift to 789 does make it harder. TPE also fairly available. I find SIN and HKG super difficult.
Dec 21, 2017 | 10:41 pm
#21
Original Poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: dark side of the moon
Programs: papa card, UA 1K
Posts: 707
Interesting stuff - It's for a personal trip in early spring; no final destination decided .... I very rarely wait-list; I have had great success booking into available R to NRT, but I wanted to visit somewhere else.....
Dec 22, 2017 | 2:05 am
#22
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: NRT / HND
Programs: AA EXP, A3 Gold, Former UA 1K
Posts: 6,366
How do you get this to work from a non hub ? I'm at BOS and there is NEVER any R space to China (or Europe). I checked dates from my next trip to HKG and EWR<->HKG has R space available. However if I do BOS<->HKG routing through the exact same flights, it goes back to wait list. Help ?