Lufthansa availability with MileagePlus
I am looking to book a Biz award to Europe (from the US East coast) for early June. I see Biz class availability on Lifemiles that wasn't showing on United or Aeroplan (but IS showing on expertflyer).
I haven't called any of the plans to attempt booking but any idea if this is more likely to be phantom availability, an error on both United/Aeroplan sites, or real difference in availability? |
Originally Posted by ECR12
(Post 29686587)
I am looking to book a Biz award to Europe (from the US East coast) for early June. I see Biz class availability on Lifemiles that wasn't showing on United or Aeroplan (but IS showing on expertflyer).
I haven't called any of the plans to attempt booking but any idea if this is more likely to be phantom availability, an error on both United/Aeroplan sites, or real difference in availability? |
EF uses the LH Group inventory IIRC, not *A partners. And LifeMiles is known to have access to more space than other partners.
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This is helpful, thanks sbm12
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I've been seeing quite a bit of availability come up on AC and NH that isn't on LH, no idea what's going on. wondering if LH is tired of too many credit card miles from the US being spent? hehe
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Originally Posted by sbm12
(Post 29686979)
EF uses the LH Group inventory IIRC, not *A partners. And LifeMiles is known to have access to more space than other partners.
Originally Posted by ECR12
(Post 29686587)
I am looking to book a Biz award to Europe (from the US East coast) for early June. I see Biz class availability on Lifemiles that wasn't showing on United or Aeroplan (but IS showing on expertflyer).
I haven't called any of the plans to attempt booking but any idea if this is more likely to be phantom availability, an error on both United/Aeroplan sites, or real difference in availability? In case anybody wants to follow along from home: LH 452 (MUC-LAX) is available on 5/21/18 on EF and SQ, but not UA or AC. Yet the same flight is available on the next day (5/22/18) on UA. In the past, the potential work around was a long sell. But I finally got an agent to try to long sell (or so she claimed) on a separate flight (the unicorn LH F West coast TATL). She said she knew just what to do as she's done it for revenue flights, but when she tried, the system blocked her and gave an error message so in the end I wasn't successful. And of course the O is now gone. |
Originally Posted by jmanirish
(Post 29687735)
It's actually the opposite. EF notes: "The Lufthansa Award search shows partner award inventory. Availability to Miles & More members may be greater."
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Originally Posted by sbm12
(Post 29688193)
It is LH point of sale though, right? It used to be.
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I am having the same issue, EF and NH are showing availability on LH, but I can't find it on UA, has anyone had luck calling in?
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Originally Posted by N104UA
(Post 29700331)
I am having the same issue, EF and NH are showing availability on LH, but I can't find it on UA, has anyone had luck calling in?
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Originally Posted by N104UA
(Post 29700331)
I am having the same issue, EF and NH are showing availability on LH, but I can't find it on UA, has anyone had luck calling in?
Originally Posted by ECR12
(Post 29700577)
I called United and they did NOT have availability (which was being shown on ExpertFlyer and Avianca). I decided to use Avianca and had no problem booking online after transferring the Citi pts. I was hoping to use my United miles rather than redeem a transferable currency but the trip's only a month away and I wasn't seeing much else out there.
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UA does not see LH availability?
For a bunch of XXX-FRA-JFK itineraries in August, LH awards in biz seem to be available via AC, NH, or SQ. None of them come up when searching via UA. Very annoying.
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Originally Posted by AustinPilot
(Post 33351654)
For a bunch of XXX-FRA-JFK itineraries in August, LH awards in biz seem to be available via AC, NH, or SQ. None of them come up when searching via UA. Very annoying.
Good luck. |
Originally Posted by Kmxu
(Post 33351662)
Did you search individual segments? If FRA-JFK has biz award available, call UA to get to book your trip.
Good luck. |
Originally Posted by AustinPilot
(Post 33351695)
Individual segments, both XXX-FRA and FRA-JFK, are all available (in I) when I search AC, NH, or SQ. Neither segment shows on UA. UA offers some LH but only on complicated 2- and 3-stop itineraries with overnight layovers.
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