Ari

Get a travel agent or call United. You can't do this online.

jsloan

In the 1% of cases where you actually want to do this, multi-city search will allow it to be done online.

Take, for example, the EWR-TLV / TLV-ZRH-EWR-MIA itinerary described. For dates in March and April, I get $1,462.84 if booked in V on the outbound (which OP said was the lowest available at that time) and W on the return.

If I force a fare break at ZRH, enabling me to up-fare only ZRH-EWR-MIA, the fare jumps to $8,338.84, as Y fares must be used all the way through.

Even if we assume that the agent did something weird and combined fares that can't actually be combined, the ZRH-MIA W fare is more expensive than the TLV-MIA W fare would have been -- it's $1511.93 to fly V on EWR-TLV and W on ZRH-EWR-MIA.

Kleinnaf Did you look at your receipt afterwards? Is it possible that the agent up-fared the entire trip without mentioning it specifically?

Kleinnaf

I have not looked at the receipt in a while
but I do remember that only the zrh-ewr was in W and not EWR-MIA.
The GS desk did have to call the rate desk to make it work. Didn't take long though

jsloan

That makes even less sense. TLV-MIA W is cheaper than ZRH-MIA W, which itself is cheaper than ZRH-EWR W.

I have no idea what they did to make that price out for you and have it actually be cheaper than W all the way through, but I'm guessing that it wasn't something they'd do for a non-GS member.

Ari

You're right. I misread the OP. I thought the OP was trying to do something else which is specify segment by segment.

PVDtoDEL

They probably upfared TLV-EWR, which is cheaper in W class than TLV-MIA.