Originally Posted by YumYumcake
(Post 31900752)
Within 30 days or so you will pay a "close in booking fee" in miles. That's the extra 2.5K miles you see over the 25K. Look 30 days out and you should see the 25K awards.
Feels more like “dynamic” pricing. Again, this isn’t a big deal right now, but it’s a scary precedent. |
Just did another companion Polaris saver award to Europe, 120,000 miles. No problem and fairly quick. She kept apologizing for how long it was taking but the entire call was 6 minutes long.
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Just got off with GS agent after trying to get companion saver first on two non-stop domestic one-way paid first tickets, AAA-BBB & BBB-AAA, separated by three days. After she did AAA-BBB, I gave her the PNR for BBB-AAA & she goes, "Oh, that's the return. As of December 12, we can only force saver for one way of a round-trip." So I said, "That's not a return of a round-trip ticket; it's a distinct one-way flight." So she goes, "I've got to call the global services benefits specialist. Please hold." Ten minutes later she comes back & says, "Even though two one-way tickets, according to GS specialist this is a return trip and only one way can force saver."
I didn't attempt a legalistic discussion of how to unambiguously define a particular one-way ticket as a "return". If this is really the new rule, it sucks. |
Originally Posted by physioprof
(Post 31915162)
Just got off with GS agent after trying to get companion saver first on two non-stop domestic one-way paid first tickets, AAA-BBB & BBB-AAA, separated by three days. After she did AAA-BBB, I gave her the PNR for BBB-AAA & she goes, "Oh, that's the return. As of December 12, we can only force saver for one way of a round-trip." So I said, "That's not a return of a round-trip ticket; it's a distinct one-way flight." So she goes, "I've got to call the global services benefits specialist. Please hold." Ten minutes later she comes back & says, "Even though two one-way tickets, according to GS specialist this is a return trip and only one way can force saver."
I didn't attempt a legalistic discussion of how to unambiguously define a particular one-way ticket as a "return". If this is really the new rule, it sucks. Or better yet Do each on separate phone calls. |
Originally Posted by Kleinnaf
(Post 31915190)
Huca.
Or better yet Do each on separate phone calls. |
Re-posting this from the 2019 thread - I wrote to GS about the following
Thank you for being a Global Service member and congratulations for your 2020 invite! I'm sorry to hear of the confusion over your benefits. I contacted a representative from the Global Service Department directly. Bullet #1. It is true that you are now limited to just 1 companion when converting T to XN class and you also have to be traveling. Bullet #2. When you purchase a roundtrip business ticket, our guidelines now state that we can "open up" only one segment in IN class. Bullet #3. You were advised correctly. The IN fare class pricing may change. It is part of what we call "dynamic pricing". We quote the amount of miles needed at the time of the request and this is subject to change. Bullet #4. We can process both YN/XN to PN. So, the statement "Saver award XN to PN using plus points has been eliminated" is not correct per 3 different Global Service agents. Bullet #5. Again, pricing may vary due to the dynamic pricing. My apologies again for the lengthy phone calls and possibly conflicting information. We do expect every member of our team to provide professional service and it sounds like we fell short. My apologies. Please let us know if we may be of further assistance. |
Originally Posted by physioprof
(Post 31915162)
Just got off with GS agent after trying to get companion saver first on two non-stop domestic one-way paid first tickets, AAA-BBB & BBB-AAA, separated by three days. After she did AAA-BBB, I gave her the PNR for BBB-AAA & she goes, "Oh, that's the return. As of December 12, we can only force saver for one way of a round-trip." So I said, "That's not a return of a round-trip ticket; it's a distinct one-way flight." So she goes, "I've got to call the global services benefits specialist. Please hold." Ten minutes later she comes back & says, "Even though two one-way tickets, according to GS specialist this is a return trip and only one way can force saver."
I didn't attempt a legalistic discussion of how to unambiguously define a particular one-way ticket as a "return". If this is really the new rule, it sucks. The fact that she said "first class" makes me wonder if this is only for domestic, as I have yet to have any agent give me pushback on international. If this is how it is for domestic, I guess I could live with it, though I'm not happy about it. At risk is just the extra change fees if I have to change them. If this is the case for international as well, then it is a HUGE devaluation of Global Services benefits. I also asked the first agent if it would matter if I did two one-ways instead. She said "I'm not really supposed to answer that". |
Do we know if the difficult responses are coming disproportionately from the ex-Continental agents, or have Detroit and Honolulu agents gone rogue as well? Would be a real shame if we lost those super-helpful agents
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Originally Posted by chitraveler1975
(Post 31915725)
Do we know if the difficult responses are coming disproportionately from the ex-Continental agents, or have Detroit and Honolulu agents gone rogue as well? Would be a real shame if we lost those super-helpful agents
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I had a question sent to regular GS-email CS. But answer came back from mileageplus CS, not GS CS as I had always experienced sofar.
A new procedure? |
So if you are flying RT aaa-bbb-ccc where ccc is in europe and all they will upgrade is bbb-ccc one way what happens for the rest? is it charged as a standard award or ?? Europe used to be 120 as a saver Biz. what would it be now?
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Originally Posted by ua_sp_102366
(Post 31915290)
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Originally Posted by cesco.g
(Post 31915890)
Many GS flyers are part of a family of 3 or 4, e.g. wife/husband and a couple of kids, so allowing T>XN for two or three pax is really in order. On top IME this happens only once or twice/year anyway on a family vacation. This is a very family-unfriendly policy & huge devaluation.
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Originally Posted by PBIFLL
(Post 31915819)
So if you are flying RT aaa-bbb-ccc where ccc is in europe and all they will upgrade is bbb-ccc one way what happens for the rest? is it charged as a standard award or ?? Europe used to be 120 as a saver Biz. what would it be now?
For example, on a EWR-ATH-EWR trip I have this fall, the pricing for a companion on a paid fare was 120,000 miles. If this rule was enforced, it would have jumped to 215,000 miles (155+60). The standard award for the return is actually showing as 236,000 miles ONE-WAY ATH-EWR, but in this case I'd obviously prefer the cheaper standard award on the outbound and use the "force" for the more expensive return. Again if this holds, it's not only a massive devaluation, but would totally change whether I think fighting so hard for United to keep GS. Maybe united thinks GS will cough up the additional miles for companions, but instead I would just not take the trip in the first place, or fly economy. |
Originally Posted by LIH
(Post 31915901)
How many GS' aren't 1MM flyers though? My wife gets my GS status which usually solves this issue.
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