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Old Aug 16, 2018, 10:08 am
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Possible to get Singapore Airlines (SQ) flight on 016 stock?
I'm trying to booking flights with SQ 21/22 SIN-EWR in the itinerary through united.com but the booking engine just won't show any direct SIN-EWR or vv. flights. Have to do this over the phone (agents will see the flights). Does anyone know why?
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 10:10 am
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Does anyone know why?
UA would prefer to sell you a seat on their own flights (through SFO/LAX) or joint venture flights (through EWR) than sell a competitor's flight.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 10:38 am
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Intentional? Accidental? With UA IT you never really know.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 11:00 am
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Intentional? Accidental? With UA IT you never really know.
Probably intentional. I don’t see SQ’s JFK-FRA flight available on UA’s website either.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 11:15 am
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If UA is even able to book it on 016 stock, note it will likely be a full fare ticket - SQ is one of the carriers that only allows discount fares to be booked on their own stock. If you’re expecting to get PQD on the lowest SQ fares, prepare to be disappointed.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 11:54 am
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Taking a look at SQ SIN-EWR D fare and the fare rules say:
Code:
TICKETS MUST BE ISSUED ON SQ OR MI AND MAY ONLY BE SOLD IN
SIN/JHB
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 12:00 pm
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It really has very little to do with UA. It's SQ's plating restrictions. You'll have to buy a full C fare to ticket this through UA. That's going to be awfully expensive.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 12:13 pm
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Airline website is not public travel booking engine website. It does not work like Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz etc.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 12:34 pm
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It really has very little to do with UA. It's SQ's plating restrictions. You'll have to buy a full C fare to ticket this through UA. That's going to be awfully expensive.
UA could show the flights at full-fare. They elect not to do so, presumably for competitive reasons in this case. In other, more complicated cases, I'd think search engine incompetence, but when flights aren't showing up on a simple one-way/round-trip search (as opposed to part of a complicated multi-city itinerary), it's because UA has chosen not to display them.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 1:21 pm
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UA could show the flights at full-fare. They elect not to do so, presumably for competitive reasons in this case. In other, more complicated cases, I'd think search engine incompetence, but when flights aren't showing up on a simple one-way/round-trip search (as opposed to part of a complicated multi-city itinerary), it's because UA has chosen not to display them.
Perhaps, but my experience is there are very limited circumstances where UA will show *A flights that aren't codeshared, and usually, they will only show *A flights that as the UA #. Not always, but usually. I've definitely seen limited amounts of LH flights show up as native LH flight numbers, even when they do have a codeshare number, but again, usually will only show as the UA codeshare and not native. Sometimes I've called to get an agent to book a AC-UA connection, for example, with the AC number vs. the UA codeshare it shows on the web. And obviously, connections on non-partner carriers - CX, JetStar, etc. are booked as their native flight numbers.

There used to be a workaround on flights where award space was available, as before checkout, there used to be a place where it would suggest to buy in cash instead if you wanted. That went away a couple of years ago, maybe, when UA started showing the bundles just before checkout.
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Old Aug 16, 2018, 1:26 pm
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Tried this recently and failed. Even with a feeder flight on UA at the beginning of the itinerary. Tried web, phone, and TA.
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Old Sep 26, 2018, 7:21 pm
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RE-launched SQ direct flight from EWR
does anyone know when UA is going to offer the codeshare flight for the relaunched SQ direct flight from EWR to Singapore in October? I’m searching on UA flight search and it is not showing it. The pricing for the SQ direct on the Singapore Airlines website is significantly cheaper vs the connections on UA site. Any thoughts?
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Old Sep 26, 2018, 7:25 pm
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SQ generally has plating restrictions and few codeshares with UA, so you may be waiting for a long time.
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Old Sep 26, 2018, 7:28 pm
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Originally Posted by raiachat
does anyone know when UA is going to offer the codeshare flight for the relaunched SQ direct flight from EWR to Singapore in October?
"Never" would be my guess.
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Old Sep 26, 2018, 7:31 pm
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Well that’s a bummer
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