Jan 25, 2019, 10:30 pm
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
Message on UA.com when searching for awards outside USA
updated evening (PST) 27 Feb 2019 to
previously
Plus ANA(now restored).
updated evening (PST) 27 Feb 2019 to
Award travel on Singapore Airlines is temporarily unavailable. Our airline partner is diligently working with us to address this situation.
Award travel on Singapore Airlines, TAP Air Portugal and THAI is temporarily unavailable through MileagePlus.
— We’re working on making these awards available, and you may still be able to find awards on other partners.
— We’re working on making these awards available, and you may still be able to find awards on other partners.
All UA award space for TP&TG (gone - now back?) & SQ still gone??
Feb 13, 2019, 8:54 pm
#181
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Portland OR & Bangkok
Programs: United GS, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 662
No. IME NH almost never releases space to partners on BKK-NRT.
"Almost Never".... Really??? I book my flights to the US from BKK 90% on NH, using UA miles. They release seats well in advanced, but once they're gone, they just don't release more (unless there's a cancelation). I'm not sure what "partners" you are referring to?
Yes, thanks. The ticket is not for me, and NH is very restrictive on third party bookings. (And even if it were possible, the Amex transfer takes several days; AP is instant.)
"Almost Never".... Really??? I book my flights to the US from BKK 90% on NH, using UA miles. They release seats well in advanced, but once they're gone, they just don't release more (unless there's a cancelation). I'm not sure what "partners" you are referring to?
Yes, thanks. The ticket is not for me, and NH is very restrictive on third party bookings. (And even if it were possible, the Amex transfer takes several days; AP is instant.)
As for booking awards - I would NEVER fly Chinese Carriers transiting through PVG/PEK or any other cities. Too many horror stories.
Feb 13, 2019, 9:01 pm
#182
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Location: PHX
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I'm referring to booking NH flights through a *A partner, such as UA (or right now, AP, SQ, or AV). I follow these routes pretty closely, and it's rare to see NH J awards BKK-NRT available through UA. In fact, I've never been able to book NH on miles for that route (either direction). Most of my trips are booked within 8-12 weeks of departure, so maybe that explains the difference in our perspectives.
Feb 13, 2019, 9:09 pm
#183
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: UA MP 1K
Posts: 119
I think your bold key get stuck
I'm referring to booking NH flights through a *A partner, such as UA (or right now, AP, SQ, or AV). I follow these routes pretty closely, and it's rare to see NH J awards BKK-NRT available through UA. In fact, I've never been able to book NH on miles for that route (either direction). Most of my trips are booked within 8-12 weeks of departure, so maybe that explains the difference in our perspectives.
I'm referring to booking NH flights through a *A partner, such as UA (or right now, AP, SQ, or AV). I follow these routes pretty closely, and it's rare to see NH J awards BKK-NRT available through UA. In fact, I've never been able to book NH on miles for that route (either direction). Most of my trips are booked within 8-12 weeks of departure, so maybe that explains the difference in our perspectives.
Feb 13, 2019, 11:09 pm
#185
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Feb 14, 2019, 2:46 am
#186
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Portland OR & Bangkok
Programs: United GS, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 662
I think your bold key get stuck
I'm referring to booking NH flights through a *A partner, such as UA (or right now, AP, SQ, or AV). I follow these routes pretty closely, and it's rare to see NH J awards BKK-NRT available through UA. In fact, I've never been able to book NH on miles for that route (either direction). Most of my trips are booked within 8-12 weeks of departure, so maybe that explains the difference in our perspectives.
I'm referring to booking NH flights through a *A partner, such as UA (or right now, AP, SQ, or AV). I follow these routes pretty closely, and it's rare to see NH J awards BKK-NRT available through UA. In fact, I've never been able to book NH on miles for that route (either direction). Most of my trips are booked within 8-12 weeks of departure, so maybe that explains the difference in our perspectives.
That's what I thought - book through UA, etc.
I always book through UA, only recently that I used NH miles to upgrade I->O - wait-listed (gave up on using GPU) but it cleared two weeks before the flight. I'm loving this! If I can't use GPU, then there's miles - and can be wait-listed! Now all my ticket purchase are on Amex Plat (as opposed to Chase Sapphire) for 5X points....
Most of my redemption trips are booked well ahead, almost a year out - perhaps that's why I almost always get the flights I want. Having flexibility on the actual travel dates also helps. For 8-12 weeks out, you'd be left with TG and/or economy only - as you already know
Feb 14, 2019, 7:35 am
#187
Join Date: May 2004
Location: US
Programs: UA Lifetime Gold, IHG Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 973
TG flights are now appearing on MileagePlus but only on some routes but not others. I was able to book BKK to Taipei, but not BKK to DEL even though other Star websites show availability.
Feb 14, 2019, 1:19 pm
#188
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 9,670
I got screwed over this morning when I tried to change my flight, United.com offered up 2 TG segments (LHR-BKK, BKK-HKT) but only the HKT segment showed as confirmed afterwards. The TG long-haul was waitlisted despite united.com letting me make the award change.
Considering how the flight is tomorrow, I had no other option but find a routing that did not involve TG.. thankfully, the 1K desk found something that works, but it took an hour.
The agent said that they were not allowed to ticket anything with TG/TP/SQ awards, so it may be a combination of restrictions in place to guard against the waitlist situation from happening.
This is such a mess and I expect United to be a lot more proactive, esp if their website is promising availability (even all the way through ticketing) but you end up with nothing real.
Feb 16, 2019, 9:09 pm
#190
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,072
Thai award availability
I am not able to find Thai award availability on united.com when I use to find lots of it. Does anyone know of a change?
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Feb 16, 2019 at 10:00 pm Reason: merged to existing thread
Feb 16, 2019, 9:19 pm
#191
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Anywhere but home
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Posts: 4,550
this is on top of the webpage when searching for an award:
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Feb 16, 2019 at 10:03 pm Reason: cleanup after merge
Feb 17, 2019, 9:57 am
#192
Join Date: Sep 2005
Programs: Northwest, United
Posts: 3,256
Here, I fixed that for ya...
Last edited by nwflyboy; Feb 17, 2019 at 10:33 am
Feb 18, 2019, 6:49 am
#193
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: NYC
Programs: UA: GS, MM; Marriott: PP
Posts: 18
Love nwflyboy's post - lol
Feb 18, 2019, 1:24 pm
#194
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: Mileage Plus 1K \\ ConciergeKey
Posts: 531
I don't have a twitter account, but has anyone tried that route yet and calling them out there?
Feb 18, 2019, 5:05 pm
#195
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: CHS
Programs: UA GS, Bonvoy Amabassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 2,589
How many refresh this post several times a day hoping for someone to post
IT's FIXED
Only to realize this is UA IT and we really don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon
also - added a tweet:
got a reply LOL:
Maybe tweet links don't show - but twitter is Hipplewm
IT's FIXED
Only to realize this is UA IT and we really don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon
also - added a tweet:
got a reply LOL:
Maybe tweet links don't show - but twitter is Hipplewm
Last edited by Hipplewm; Feb 18, 2019 at 5:43 pm